2021 WISER Distinguished Lectureship Series: Evelyn N. Wang
Illinois Institute of Technology, its Wanger Institute for Sustainable Energy Research (WISER), the Illinois Tech chemical and biological engineering, civil and architectural engineering, electrical and computer engineering, and mechanical, materials, and aerospace engineering departments, and the 电车无码 Council on Science and Technology welcome Evelyn N. Wang, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for the 2021 Distinguished Lectureship Series. Wang will give a lecture titled 鈥淣anoengineered Materials and Thermal Engineering for Advanced Energy and Water Technologies.鈥
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Abstract
Nanoengineered materials have exciting, untapped potential to improve energy and water technologies. In this talk, Wang will provide a few examples of how nanoscale manipulation capabilities are leveraged to develop advanced thermal management, solar thermal energy conversion, and water harvesting devices.
First, she will discuss her research group鈥檚 recent work that harnesses novel surface designs to control and manipulate wettability and liquid-vapor phase-change processes. The group demonstrated high flux evaporation from ultra-thin nanoporous membranes for thermal management applications. Next, Wang will discuss how nanoengineered materials can also be used to increase the efficiency of solar thermal devices. Specifically, she will share her group's work on optically transparent thermally insulating aerogel solar receivers for energy conversion and medical sterilization. Finally, Wang will present a water harvesting device that leverages the unique properties of metal organic frameworks and other adsorbents along with novel device architectures to address water scarcity challenges in arid climates.
Biography
Wang is the Gail E. Kendall Professor and department head in the mechanical engineering department at MIT. She received her B.S. in mechanical engineering from MIT, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from Stanford University. From 2006鈥2007 she was a postdoctoral researcher at Bell Laboratories. Her research interests include fundamental studies of micro/nanoscale heat and mass transport and the development of efficient thermal management, solar thermal energy conversion, and water harvesting systems. Wang鈥檚 work has been honored with awards including 2008 DARPA Young Faculty Award, the 2011 Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Award, the 2012 Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, the 2012 ASME Bergles-Rohsenow Young Investigator Award, the 2016 ASME EPPD Women Engineer Award, the 2017 ASME Gustus L. Larson Award, and the 2020 ICNMM Prominent Researcher Award. Wang was recognized as one of Foreign Policy鈥檚 Global Re-Thinkers in 2017 and is an ASME Fellow.