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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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Solar
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Water
News
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Bikram Bhatia’s work on passive directional radiative cooling featured in MIT News
Congratulations to Bikram Bhatia for his work on passive directional radiative cooling. Using a directional approach to passive radiative cooling…
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Kyle Wilke’s work on condensation-resistant omniphobic surfaces featured in MIT News
Congratulations to Kyle Wilke for his work on condensation-resistant omniphobic surfaces. Using isolated reentrant cavities to prevent nucleation and spreading…
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Congratulations to Evelyn N. Wang for being named head of the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering!
Congratulations to Evelyn N. Wang, the Gail E. Kendall (1978) Professor and director of MIT’s Device Research Laboratory, for being…
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Congratulations to our recent graduates Dr. Hyunho Kim, Dr. Zhengmao Lu and Dr. David Bierman!
Congratulations to all our recent graduates!
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Congratulations to Zhengmao Lu for successfully defending his PhD
Congratulations to Zhengmao Lu for successfully defending his PhD on Evaporation from Nanopores: Probing Interfacial Transport. The improved fundamental understanding…
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Demonstration in Arizona (USA) of arid climate and sub-zero dew points water harvesting using metal-organic framework
Congratulations to Hyunho, Sameer, Lin, Sungwoo and their collaborators for publishing their most recent work on water harvesting in Nature Communications!…