News & Updates

June 2023

📰New publication! "Predicting Supercooling of Phase Change Materials in Arbitrarily Varying Conditions" led by me is published in Cell Reports Physical Science! 

May 2023

🐊 Starting January 2024, I will be joining the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Florida as an Assistant Professor! Please stay tuned for further updates. 

Feb 2023

📰New publication! "Capillary Transfer of Self-Assembled Colloidal Crystals" led by Carlos and coauthored by me is published in Nano Letters! 

December 2022

📰New publication! "Enhanced Laplace Pressures for Functional Surfaces: Wicking, Switchability, and Selectivity" led by Kyle and me is published in Advanced Materials Interfaces! This paper wraps up our work on functional wettability harnessing the metastable state at reentrant structures. For those who are interested in further details, the theoretical background is well explained in our previous paper published in PNAS!

June 2022

📰New publication! "Three-Tier Hierarchical Structures for Extreme Pool Boiling Heat Transfer Performance" led by me is published in Advanced Materials! 

Highlighted in MIT News, New Atlas, Interesting Engineering, Science X, BGR

Feb 2022

📰New publication! "Enhancement of Boiling with Scalable Sandblasted Surfaces " led by me is published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces! This work is the result of collaborations with Red Lab at MIT and PI Lab at Rice. 

Jan 2022

📰New publication! "Turning traditionally nonwetting surfaces wetting for even ultra-high surface energy liquids" led by Kyle Wilke and Zhengmao Lu and coauthored by me was published in PNAS!

Highlighted in MIT News

Jan 2022

📰Another paper from the collaboration with PI Lab at Rice is out! "Temporal evolution of surface contamination under ultra-high vacuum" led by Zhen Liu and coauthored by me was published in Langmuir!

Dec 2021

📰New publication! A paper titled "Alteration of pool boiling heat transfer on metallic surfaces by in situ oxidation" led by me is published in International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer! We collaborated with PI Lab at Rice University for this research.

Nov 2021

📰New publication! A paper titled "Unified descriptor for enhanced critical heat flux during pool boiling of hemi-wicking surfaces" led by me and co-authored by Lenan, Carlos, and Sam is published in International Journal of Heat and Mass transfer!

Oct 2021

✈The new chapter begins. I moved to Berkeley, CA to pursue my postdoctoral research. I'll be working on thermal energy storage with Dr. Ravi Prasher in thermal energy group at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.  

Aug 2021

🎓Here comes Dr. Song! I successfully defended my PhD thesis titled "Mechanistic understanding and enhancing pool boiling heat transfer via surface property and structure design" on 8/12/2021.

Mar 2021

📰A paper titled "Microtube surfaces for the simultaneous enhancement of efficiency and critical heat flux during pool boiling " led by me and co-authored by Shuai and Geoff is published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces! 

Oct 2020

📰A paper titled "Criteria for antibubble formation from drop pairs impinging on a free surface" led by me is published in Physical Review Fluids! This work started from a course project of 18.357 (Interfacial Phenomena) lectured by Prof. John Bush.

Oct 2020

🏆I was selected as one of First Place Presenters at MIT Mechanical Engineering Research Exhibition (MERE) 2020!

Highlighted in MIT News

June 2020

📰A paper titled "Effects of airborne hydrocarbon adsorption on pool boiling heat transfer" led by me is published in Applied Physics Letters! This work collaborated with PI Lab at Rice University.

June 2020

📰A paper titled "Heat transfer suppression by suspended droplets on microstructured surfaces" led by Mengyao Wei and coauthored by me was published in Applied Physics Letters!

Mar 2020

📰A paper led by Zhenyuan Xu, Lenan Zhang, Lin Zhao, Bangjun Li and coauthored by me was published in Energy & Environmental Science. 

Nov 2019

🏆I received Sontheimer Travel Award in Mechanical Engineering at MIT for the presentation of my work at Pacific Rim Thermal Engineering Conference (PRTEC)! I presented the effects of airborne hydrocarbon adsorption on pool boiling heat transfer. 

Jan 2019

🏆I was selected as the Winner of Nanotechnology & Nanomaterials Session at MIT Microsystems Annual Research Conference (MARC)!