April 2024: Thank you to the Rice School of Engineering for the Teaching + Research Award! (link)
April 2024: Congratulations to undergraduate researcher Katie Hart on being awarded the NSF GRFP Honorable Mention!
March 2024: Congratulations to Trevor and our Preston lab collaborators on the Advanced Materials Interfaces paper on jumping droplet thermal diodes (link).
February 2024: We are excited to work on a DOE IEDO project with Rice and DexMat collaborators to improve the thermal conductivity of carbon nanotube fibers for applications in industrial heat exchanger fins! (link).
December 2023: Congratulations to Nicolas and co-authors for the Applied Physics Letters paper modeling thermoelectric active cooling (link).
November 2023: Welcome to new NHTL Ph.D. student Monisha!
September 2023: Welcome to visiting M.S. student Yutaka Ishikawa from University of Tokyo!
September 2023: Congratulations to Qing on starting his new position at Rice-founded startup company Helix Earth Technologies!
September 2023: We are excited to collaborate with DexMat, Rice, and Prysmian researchers on a Department of Energy AMMTO project developing carbon nanotube fibers for power transmission applications! (link)
August 2023: Congratulations to Lorenzo and co-authors for the Cell Reports Physical Science paper demonstrating a magnetic thermal regulator for passive thermal management (link).
August 2023: Lorenzo is awarded a DOE iBUILD Fellowship to deploy thermally switchable devices in building technologies. Great work! (link, story)
July 2023: Congratulations to Trevor and collaborators on the Applied Thermal Engineering paper using strain gauges to investigate oscillating heat pipe performance! (link)
May 2023: Congratulations to Trevor for winning the poster prize at ICBHT! (link)
May 2023: Congratulations to graduating UG researchers Natan, Edward, Kaitlyn, and Dylan!
March 2023: Congratulations to Yingru on his Materials Today Physics paper developing ray tracing methods for ballistic temperature and heat flux mapping (link).
January 2023: Congrats to Qing and Trevor on their IJHMT thermomagnetic modeling paper (link).
January 2023: Congratulations to Lorenzo, Qing, and Trevor on their Nature Communications paper demonstrating a magnetic thermal transistor (link, story).
December 2022: Congratulations to Ajay on defending his M.S. thesis!
September 2022: We are excited to work on the NSF-funded JUNCTION (Japan-U.S. Network for Clean Energy Technologies using Oriented Nanotubes) collaborative research project with researchers at Rice, U. Utah, and U. Buffalo. We thank the NSF PIRE program for the support. (link)
August 2022: Congratulations to Qing, Kaitlyn, and Lorenzo on their Advanced Functional Materials paper demonstrating an oscillating thermal diode (link).
August 2022: Welcome to new NHTL Ph.D. student Ariel!
June 2022: Welcome to new NHTL undergraduate researcher Alexa, and congratulations to NHTL alumni Alisa and Tyler on your graduation!
May 2022: We are excited to work with partner company DexMat, Inc. on a Department of Energy STTR project pushing the upper limit on the thermal conductivity of carbon nanotube fiber conductors (link).
April 2022: Our collaborative paper studying the properties of graphitized carbon nanotube fibers is published in Science Advances. (link)
April 2022: Congratulations to Alisa on being awarded a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship! (link)
February 2022: Congrats to Natan for winning “Best Presentation” at the 2021 Gulf Coast Undergraduate Research Symposium (GCURS)! Well done!
February 2022: Congrats to Vishal on starting his new position at Intel!
January 2022: The team is excited to work on nanoscale temperature mapping across interfaces using electron microscopy, and to develop educational opportunities in partnership with Houston-area community colleges. We thank NSF for the support through the CAREER program (link).
December 2021: Our collaborative proposal to develop carbon nanotube fiber thermoelectric heat switches is funded by Rice’s Technology Development fund. Great job team! (link)
October 2021: Congratulations to Trevor, Qing, and Natan on their IJHMT paper modeling time-periodic rectification in thermal diodes! (link)
August 2021: Welcome to new NHTL Ph.D. students Lorenzo and OG and new undergraduate researchers Alisa, Tyler, Dylan, and Edward !
August 2021: Yingru and Andrea present their research at the Smalley-Curl Institute Summer Research Symposium. Well done!
July 2021: Congratulations to Yingru on his Journal of Applied Physics paper studying phonon transport in modulated nanowires! (link).
June 2021: Welcome to new NHTL postdoctoral scholar Dr. Vishal Zade and to new undergraduate researchers Andrea and Natan!
May 2021: Congratulations to NHTL undergraduate researchers J.P., Harry, and Hociel on your graduation!
May 2021: Congratulations to Hociel Landa for earning the “Top Engineering Poster Presentation” award at the Rice Undergraduate Research Symposium!
March 2021: We are excited to work with the Carbon Hub to develop carbon nanotube fibers for power transmission applications. (link)
January 2021: Welcome to the NHTL’s newest graduate student researcher Ajay Garg!
December 2020: Our collaborative work studying nanomechanical deformation via van-der-Waals interactions is published in Nano Letters. Congrats to Qing and to our collaborators in the Jones lab!
December 2020: Congratulations to Trevor and Yingru for passing their Ph.D. Qualifying Exams!
November 2020: Congratulations to Mojdeh for being selected as one of six Rice University Future Faculty Fellows for 2020-2021! (link)
September 2020: Our collaborative work studying electrical, mechanical, and thermal properties of carbon nanotube fibers is published in Carbon. Congratulations to our collaborators Lauren and Oliver!
September 2020: Welcome to the lab’s newest postdoctoral scholar, Dr. Mojdeh Nazari!
July 2020: Welcome to the lab’s summer undergraduate researchers: Chima, Harry, KJ, Hociel, and JP!
April 2020: Congratulations to NHTL Ph.D. student Trevor Shimokusu for being awarded a prestigious NASA Space Technologies Graduate Research Opportunity (NSTGRO)! Looking forward to working with NASA engineers to design next-generation thermal diodes for spacecraft thermal management.
February 2020: Welcome to the lab’s new postdoctoral scholar, Dr. Qing Zhu!
November 2019: Prof. Patrick Shamberger from Texas A&M University visits Rice MECH to give a seminar about engineering thermal properties of phase-change heat sink composites.
October 2019: The group is excited to begin working on a new project to engineer magnetic heat switches for future spacecraft applications (link). We thank the NASA Space Technologies Mission Directorate for their support.
September 2019: Our modeling paper studying sub-continuum electron beam heating is published in Journal of Applied Physics.
August 2019: Welcome to the lab’s inaugural Ph.D. students, Trevor and Yingru!
June 2019: Our collaborative paper on modeling phonon transport using modified ballistic-diffusive equations is published in Nanoscale and Microscale Thermophysical Engineering.
May 2019: Our collaborative manuscript on helium ion-writing of thermal metamaterials is published in Nano Letters.
December 2018: Our paper about electron microscope nanothermometry is published in Applied Physics Letters.
November 2018: Prof. Jon Malen from Carnegie Mellon university visits Rice MECH to give a seminar about thermal transport in hybrid organic / inorganic materials with applications in photovoltaics, gas storage, and soft robotics.
October 2018: Prof. Shannon Yee from Georgia Tech visits Rice MECH to give a seminar about organic thermoelectric materials and devices for personal cooling.
July 2018: Nanoscale Heat Transfer Lab is founded at Rice University!