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Research Area
Research Area
Droplet and bubble dynamics
Multiphase flow and transport phenomena in fuel cells
Hydrogen energy
Research Funding
Research Funding
As project leader and sub-project leader, I have received more than 20 grants, including three from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (one Key Project and two General Projects), the Natural Science Foundation of Tianjin City, Provincial Science and Technology Plans, Key Laboratory Open projects, and Enterprise-Funded projects. Representative projects are as follows:
PI, National Natural Science Foundation of China, Key project. Icing mechanism of supercooled large droplets under flight conditions and ice protection methods for large aircraft. 2026/01-2029/12.
PI, Mechanism and control of droplet freezing in confined micro- and mini-structures, National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2022/01-2025/12.
PI, Microscale mechanism and control of droplet impact on solid surfaces under off-normal conditions, National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2017/01-2020/12.
PI, Mechanism investigation of the impact of fuel spray droplets on walls in internal combustion engines, Natural Science Foundation of Tianjin City, 2016/10-2019/09.
PI, National Key Laboratory of Spacecraft Thermal Control, Bubble dynamics mechanism and heat transfer enhancement technology of heterogeneous metal foam flow boiling heat transfer, 2024/11-2026/04.
CoI, Key technologies of thermal management of electric vehicles, Department of Science and Technology of Guangxi Autonomous Region, 2024/05-2027/05.
PI, Degradation mechanisms of fuel cells operating at high-temperature conditions, Basic Scientific Research Institute Stability Support Project, 2024/05-2026/11.
CoI, Technological development and application of hybrid electricity generation system based on proton exchange membrane fuel cell and hydrogen internal combustion engine, Department of Science and Technology of Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region, 2022/07-2025/06.
PI, High-power fuel cell design and integration technology with chemical batteries, Industrial Technology Development, 2024/05-2026/10.
PI, Fuel cell power system and its compatibility with vehicles, Industrial Technology Development, 2020-2020.
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Image gallery
Droplet freezing and melting
Droplet freezing and melting
For more information: J Cui, T Wang, Z Che*. [2024] Freezing-melting mediated dewetting transition for droplets on superhydrophobic surfaces with condensation. Langmuir, 40(28) 14685–14696
Droplet breakup in airflow
Droplet breakup in airflow
For more information: Z Xu, T Wang, Z Che*. [2022] Droplet breakup in airflow with strong shear effect. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 941, A54.
Coalescence of immiscible sessile droplets
Coalescence of immiscible sessile droplets
For more information: H Xu, X Ge, T Wang, Z Che. [2023] Coalescence of immiscible sessile droplets on a partial wetting surface. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 971, A34
Melting of frozen droplets
Melting of frozen droplets
For more information: J Cui, T Wang, Z Che. [2023] Melting of frozen droplets on superhydrophobic surfaces. Langmuir. Accepted.
Square Ice in Graphene Nanocapillaries
Square Ice in Graphene Nanocapillaries
Droplet dynamics with surfactant
Droplet dynamics with surfactant
For more information: Z Che, OK Matar. [2017] Impact of droplets on liquid films in the presence of surfactant, Langmuir. 33(43), 12140-12148.
Droplet impact on immiscible liquid films
Droplet impact on immiscible liquid films
For more information: Z Che, OK Matar. [2018] Impact of droplets on immiscible liquid films, Soft Matter. 14(9), 1540-1551
Droplet dynamics
Droplet dynamics
For more information: Z Che, A Deygas, OK Matar. [2015] Impact of droplets on inclined flow liquid films, Physical Review E. 92, 023032.
Droplet manipulation
Droplet manipulation
For more information: Z Che, NT Nguyen, TN Wong. [2011] Hydrodynamically mediated breakup of droplets in microchannels, Applied Physics Letters 98 (5), 054102.
Interface behaviors
Interface behaviors
For more information: Z Che, PE Theodorakis. [2017] Formation, dissolution and properties of surface nanobubbles, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 487, 123–129
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