Category: News Media
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Sami Khan was awarded the 2015 International Hydropower Association’s “Young Researcher Award”
Sami Khan, PhD Student in Varanasi Group was awarded the 2015 International Hydropower Association’s “Young Researcher Award” at the World Hydropower Congress that was held in Beijing. (07/2/2015)
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Karim Khalil and Leonid Rapoport Passed the Qualifying Examinations
Congratulations to graduate students Karim Khalil and Leonid Rapoport on passing the Qualifying Examinations. They are now PhD candidates in the department of Mechanical Engineering. (5/29/2015)
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Synthetic coatings: Super surfaces. Nature, 26 March 2015
Characteristics adapted from lizards, ivy and other natural materials could help to engineer everyday objects with remarkable properties. Nature 519, S7-S9 (26 March 2015) doi:10.1038/519S7a More
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With New Nonstick Coating, the Wait, and Waste, Is Over. New York Times, 3/24/2015
LiquiGlide has found a way to make the interiors of some bottles permanently wet and slippery. That keeps substances like ketchup from sticking inside.
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Published in Soft Matter “How droplets nucleate and grow on liquids and liquid impregnated surfaces, ” selected for the back-cover of the journal and amongst the most read articles!
http://pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/journalissues/sm#!mostreadarticles
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“Dropwise Condensation of Low Surface Tension Fluids on Omniphobic Surfaces” accepted in Scientific Reports
Compared to the significant body of work devoted to surface engineering for promoting dropwise condensation heat transfer of steam, much less attention has been dedicated to fluids with lower interfacial tension.
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DropWise, 2014 MassChallenge 50k Gold Winner!
DropWise, a start up out of technology developed from collaboration of the Varanasi and Gleason Labs at MIT is a 2014 MassChallenge 50k Gold Winner!
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Varanasi Group Announced as MIT Deshpande Center Grant Recipient
MIT Deshpande Center Announces Fall 2014 Research Grants The Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation at MIT today announced it is awarding $976,000 in grants to fourteen MIT research teams currently working on early-stage technologies. These projects have the potential to make a significant impact on our quality of life in disease monitoring, cancer treatment, arthritis,…