Deepak Monga, Zongqi Guo, Li Shan, Seyed Adib Taba, Jyotirmoy Sarma, and Xianming Dai, “Quasi-Liquid Surfaces for Sustainable High-Performance Steam Condensation“, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, doi.org/10.1021/acsami.1022c00401 (2022). Video

Jyotirmoy Sarma, Lei Zhang, Zongqi Guo, and Xianming Dai, “Sustainable Icephobicity on Durable Quasi-Liquid Surface“, Chemical Engineering Journal, DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2021.133475 (2021).

Zongqi has made significant contributions to condensation heat transfer, microfluidics, and water harvesting in his Ph.D. work.

For outstanding and significant contributions to the fields of surface wettability, phase-change heat transfer, and water harvesting.

µFIP Outstanding Early Career Award

This award recognizes a researcher early in their career whose emerging work on mini-, micro- and nanoscale flow or interfacial phenomena and/or systems represents an exceptional contribution to current and future directions of research in this field. Nominees should have completed their graduate degree no more than 10 years prior to the year of nomination (i.e., no earlier than May 2011).

“The ideas are creative, and they made a series of observations in the laboratory that allowed them to understand the underlying physics and its potential applications.“

Zongqi Guo, Lei Zhang, Deepak Monga, Howard A. Stone, and Xianming Dai, “Hydrophilic Slippery Surface Enabled Coarsening Effect for Rapid Water Harvesting“, Cell Reports Physical Science, DOI: 10.1016/j.xcrp.2021.100387 (2021). Video

Lei Zhang, Zongqi Guo, Jyotirmoy Sarma, Weiwei Zhao, and Xianming Dai, “Gradient Quasi-Liquid Surface Enabled Self-Propulsion of Highly Wetting Liquids“, Advanced Functional Materials, DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202008614 (2021). Video

Xianming (Simon) was invited to give a keynote presentation entitled “Bioinspired Surfaces for Sustainable Water Harvesting” at the ICNMM2020 conference. The recorded video is available for registered attendees.