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2017
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PhD candidates Maher Damak and Karim Khalil named Forbes 30 under 30
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A new way to mix oil and water
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Stick, peel, or bounce: Controlling a freezing droplet’s fate
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The engineer who ended the ketchup bottle battle
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Group researchers designed a method to control and separate fluids on a surface using only visible light
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Group researchers design coatings to prevent pipeline clogging
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Slippery bottle solves ketchup problem
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Group Alumnus Srinivas Subramanyam talks about Developing New Coatings for Icing and Fouling Environments
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PhD candidate Maher Damak recognized for advances in engineering and chemistry
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Kripa Varanasi: Innovating at interfaces
2016
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How to empty the ketchup bottle every time
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Spray That Stays
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Researchers from the Varanasi group and ESPCI in Paris have developed a new way of driving fluid droplets across surfaces in a precisely controlled way
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Researchers from the Varanasi group have found a way to make pesticides stick to leaves instead of bouncing off
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MIT makes pesticide safer by making it sticky
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Srinivas Subramanyam has received his Doctoral degree and will start working at Eastman Chemicals
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Taylor Farnham has received his Master’s and will start working at LiquiGlide
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Sami Khan was awarded the Doctoral Postgraduate Scholarship from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
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Henri-Louis Girard and Samantha McBride have Passed the Qualifying Examinations
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Maher Damak and Sami Kahn have Passed the Qualifying Examinations
2015
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New analysis of textured surfaces could lead to more efficient, and less dangerous, power plants
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“Conjugated Polymers: Low-Dimensional Conduction Mechanisms in Highly Conductive and Transparent Conjugated Polymers” by Asli Ugur cover article in
Advanced Materials
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Liquiglide Announces Exclusive Agreement with Elmer’s Products Inc.
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Varanasi Group Alum and Liquiglide Co-Founder named on “Forbes 30 under 30” list for 2015 in the Energy Category
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Dr. Sushant Anand will begin his Assistant Professorship at UIC
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Dr. Jolet de Ruiter has been awarded the Rubicon Grant Fellowship
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Group researchers have shown that non-wetting surfaces promote chemical reaction rates
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Leonid Rapoport was awarded the Elie Shaio Memorial Fund Fellowship Award
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A research on the conductivity of promising polymers for optoelectronics and thermoelectric devices has been featured in MIT news
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Graduate student Sami Khan receives Young Researcher Award
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Sami Khan was awarded the 2015 International Hydropower Association’s “Young Researcher Award”
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Karim Khalil and Leonid Rapoport Passed the Qualifying Examinations
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Prof. Kripa K. Varanasi has been Granted a Tenure Position by MIT
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Synthetic coatings: Super surfaces.
Nature
, 26 March 2015
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With New Nonstick Coating, the Wait, and Waste, Is Over.
New York Times
, 3/24/2015
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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!
2014
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“Dropwise Condensation of Low Surface Tension Fluids on Omniphobic Surfaces” accepted in Scientific Reports
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DropWise, 2014 MassChallenge 50k Gold Winner!
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Liquiglide featured in the Boston Globe
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Varanasi Group Announced as MIT Deshpande Center Grant Recipient
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Sami Khan named Hydro Research Foundation Research Award Program Recipient
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Editor’s Pick (Today’s Energy Solutions): Separating finely mixed oil and water
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LiquiGlide Celebrates First Anniversary Milestones
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Liquiglide featured in the Boston Globe
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Research on preventing scale formation featured on MIT News. MIT researchers develop a slippery coating that could prevent the scaling that fouls oil wells and power plants.
2013
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Adam Paxson Announced as a 2013 MRS Silver Award Recipient
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Professor Varanasi featured on TIME program “The Future of Invention”
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Reducing the contact time of a bouncing drop
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Postdoc Sushant Anad wins Branco Weiss Fellowship
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July 15th, 2013: Prof. Varanasi wins 2013 Bergles-Rohsenow Young Investigator Award
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July 9th, 2013: Dr. Sushant Anand amongst winners of the prestigious Branco Weiss Fellowship (pdf)
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July 1st, 2013: Talking Shop: Kripa Varanasi (MechE Connects) Dr. Kripa Varanasi speaks about his vision and what inspires him. Read his interview here
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June 20th, 2013: Adam Paxson awarded Martin Family Fellowship for Sustainability (2013-2014) Congratulations to Adam Paxson, recipient of the Martin Family Fellowship for Sustainability (2013-2014).
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June 1st, 2013: LiquiGlide is Finalist for INDEX: Design to Improve Life Award 2013 LiquiGlide listed as a finalist for INDEX: Design to Improve Life Award 2013! Read more here
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April 16th, 2013: Gizmodo lists LiquiGlide as one of 22 Best Product Designs of the Year LiquiGlide listed as one of 22 Best Product Designs of the Year (2012) by Gizmodo! Read more here
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January 16th, 2013: Droplet mobility on lubricant-impregnated surfaces is featured as Front Cover of Soft-Matter. The paper is also amongst the Most Read Articles
2012
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December 27th, 2012: LiquiGlide has been listed by Forbes Magazine in its list of Best Food Inventions-2012! Read more here. Also read what Business Insider has to say!
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November 30th, 2012: Prof. Kripa Varanasi has received the 2013 Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award
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November 16th: Condensation using Lubricant Impregnated Surfaces (LIS) featured in Popular Science and Economist
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November 1st, 2012: LiquiGlide has been chosen by Time Magazine in its list of Best Inventions-2012! Read more here
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October 23rd, 2012: Among the teams winning MassChallenge, LiquiGlide takes its spot! Read more here, and here.
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June 25th, 2012: Hydrate-phobic surfaces: fundamental studies in clathrate hydrate adhesion reduction
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May 22nd, 2012: LiquiGlide listed as a World Changing Idea (2012) by Fast Company (Co.Exist)
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Team LiquiGlide was bestowed the honor of the popular vote at last night’s 100k finale presentation, with audience members texting their favorite pitch to the contest organizers to vote.
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April 24th, 2012: Work on hydrate-phobic surfaces has led to articles in two promininent newspapers.
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April 24th, 2012: Work in the Varanasi Group has been highlighted in a special report in the Economist.
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April 9th, 2012: Team LiquidGlide has advanced to semifinal round of the MIT 100K competition.
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January 8th, 2012: By taking a sheet of thermoplastic and soaking it in a solvent for an appropriate amount of time, authors Dr. Y. H. Cui, A. T. Paxson, K. M. Smyth, and Prof. K. K. Varanasi show how superhydrophobic dual-length-scale structures result from solvent-induced recrystallization.
