The Complex Fluids and Multiphase Transport Laboratory (CFMTL) focuses on advancing fundamental thermal-fluid, interfacial, and data sciences, and applying them to enable efficient energy conversion and storage systems, sustainable manufacturing, and effective thermal management solutions. Current projects range from basic studies of drop dynamics and interfacial transport to additive manufacturing of innovative cooling solutions and design of advanced electrochemical energy storage systems. 

The CFMTL has been supported by NSF, NASA, DOE, ARPA-E, AFOSR, ONR, DOEd, EPRI, ACS-PRF, Ben Franklin Tech Partners, States of Ohio and Pennsylvania, and industry. Our integrated experimental, multi-scale modeling, and data-driven research has made significant impacts on energy, water, advanced manufacturing, microelectronics, and materials processing, in particular through collaborations with industrial and academic partners.