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Welcome to the Device Research Lab (DRL) under the direction of Dr. Evelyn N. Wang in the Mechanical Engineering Department at MIT. The DRL aims to address energy and water challenges facing our world. We probe fundamental heat and mass transport processes, leverage novel materials engineering, and build high-performance prototypes and devices to realize impactful technologies. Specifically, our research areas comprises phase-change, solar, thermal, and water.
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News
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Congratulations to Chad Wilson, Carlos Díaz-Marín and Cody Jacobucci for successfully completing their master’s degrees
Congratulations to Chad Wilson, Carlos Díaz-Marín and Cody Jacobucci for successfully completing their master’s degrees at DRL! Chad Wilson: Design,…
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Congratulations to Jay Sircar for successfully defending his PhD
Congratulations to Jay Sircar for successfully defending his PhD on Surface structure enhanced microchannel flow boiling of low surface tension…
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Congratulations to Lenan Zhang, Zhenyuan Xu, Lin Zhao, Bikram Bhatia, Yang Zhong, and Shuai Gong for a new review paper published in Energy & Environmental Science
Their work summarizes recent advances in passive thermally-localized solar desalination. By analyzing the potential of improving energy efficiency and reliability,…
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Bubble Growth and Departure Modes on Wettable/non-wettable Porous Foams in Alkaline Water Splitting
Congratulations to Ryuichi Iwata, Lenan Zhang, Kyle Wilke, Shuai Gong, and their collaborators in professor Betar Gallant’s group for their…
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Simple, solar-powered water desalination featured as Top MIT research stories of 2020 and covered by Scientific American
Congratulations to Zhenyuan Xu, Lenan Zhang, Lin Zhao, Bikram Bhatia, Kyle Wilke, Youngsup Song and their collaborators in China for…
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Nucleation Site Distribution Probed by Phase-Enhanced Environmental Scanning Electron Microscopy
Congratulations to Lenan Zhang, Ryuichi Iwata, Lin Zhao, Shuai Gong, Zhengmao Lu, Zhenyuan Xu, Yang Zhong, Jinlong Zhu, Samuel Cruz,…