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September 11, 2023: Our group received the prestigious DARPA Young Faculty Award. Congratulations!
April 17, 2023: Congratulations to Dylan for winning the prestigious DoE Fellowship!
January 4, 2023: Our work entitled "Pushing the Limit of Beetle-Inspired Condensation on Biphilic Quasi-Liquid Surfaces" is published in Advanced Functional Materials. Congratulations!
December 17, 2022: Our work entitled “Microchannel-Elevated Micromembrane for Sustainable Phase-Separation Condensation“ is published in Joule. Congratulations!
August 29, 2022: Our work entitled “Hydrophilic reentrant SLIPS enabled flow separation for rapid water harvesting“ is published in PNAS. Congratulations!
April 22, 2022: Congratulations to our group for winning the prestigious Assistant Professor Research Award in the Jonsson School!
April 20, 2022: Congratulations to Dylan for winning the prestigious "Excellence in Education Fellowship" in the Jonsson School!
March 16, 2022: Our work entitled “Quasi-Liquid Surfaces for Sustainable High-Performance Steam Condensation“ is published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. Congratulations!
November 19, 2021: Our work entitled “Sustainable Icephobicity on Durable Quasi-Liquid Surface“ is published in Chemical Engineering Journal. Congratulations!
November 3, 2021: Congratulations to Zongqi for successfully passing his Ph.D. defense!
June 10, 2021: Our group received the prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER Award. Congratulations!
June 9, 2021: Xianming (Simon) has been selected for the Outstanding Early Career Award at the 1st µFIP conference (former ICNMM series).
March 25, 2021: Our four-year work entitled “Hydrophilic slippery surface enabled coarsening effect for rapid water harvesting” is published in Cell Reports Physical Science. Congratulations!
January 3, 2021: Our work entitled “Gradient Quasi-Liquid Surface Enabled Self-Propulsion of Highly Wetting Liquids” is published in Advanced Functional Materials. Congratulations to Lei, Zongqi, and Jyoti.
July 16, 2020: Xianming (Simon) was invited to give a keynote presentation entitled “Bioinspired Surfaces for Sustainable Water Harvesting” at the ICNMM2020 conference.
April 7, 2020: Our work entitled "Passive Removal of Highly Wetting Liquids and Ice on Quasi-Liquid Surfaces" is published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. QLS can Repel Highly Wetting Liquids, provide Sustainable Water Harvesting, and let Wind Remove Ice.
November 18, 2019: Our work on "Quasi-Liquid Surface" received ASME Best Poster Award in the Micro and Nano Technology Forum. Congratulations to Lei Zhang, Zongqi Guo and Jyotirmoy Sarma.
August 24, 2019: Our group received the prestigious Young Investigator Award from Army Research Office. Congratulations!
August 12, 2019: Our group received an industrial grant to create durable self-cleaning coatings. Congratulations!
July 8, 2019: Xianming (Simon) Dai served as a track chair in the 6th ASME International Conference of Micro/Nanoscale Heat and Mass Transfer.
March 29, 2019: Annie Zhi Won the Second Prize of Materials Science in the 2018-19 Texas Science and Engineering Fair after competing with the best candidates from the entire Texas state. Congratulations! In February, she also won the First Prize in the Dallas Regional Fair as featured by Dallas Morning News!
March 20, 2019: Nature Materials wrote an article entitled "Drinking up mist" to highlight the scientific and engineering impacts of our work on bioinspired materials for water harvesting. Thanks Philip Ball at Nature Publishing Group.
July 27, 2018: Our group was hosting five kids from local high schools in the CAST/UTD STEM Bridge Summer Camp. Our team won the 1st place prize. Congratulations!
April 3, 2018: Our paper entitled "Hydrophilic Directional Slippery Rough Surfaces for Water Harvesting" has been highlighted by National Science Foundation Science360 as top story of the day.
April 2, 2018: Our work attracted extensive media attentions, such as ACS C&EN, New Scientist, Science Magazine, EurekAlert (AAAS), ZME Science, Science Daily, Nanowerk, Phys.Org, XINHUA NET, The University Network.
March 30, 2018: Our paper entitled "Hydrophilic Directional Slippery Rough Surfaces for Water Harvesting" is now published by Science Advances, the open access journal of Science publishing group (AAAS).
Feb. 9, 2018: Xianming (Simon) Dai served as a judge in the 2018 Plano ISD Secondary Science Fair for middle and high school students.
Feb. 11, 2017: The Dai group gave Tech Demos of Nature Inspired Liquid Repellent Coatings to local middle and high school students in 2017 National Engineers Week. Special thanks to our team!
Feb. 17, 2016: Our "Slippery Wenzel State" paper has been selected as one of the prestigious JALA Ten 2016. Each year, JALA seeks to highlight and honor the very best work of the year that will have a deep impact on how technology is used across a wide range of disciplines.
Dec. 28, 2015: Our bioinspired slippery surface has been successfully used for ultra-sensitive detection. The manuscript was directly submitted to the prestigious journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and got published online.
Nov. 6, 2015: ACS Nano invited us to submit a video about our work entitled "Slippery Wenzel State", due to its large number of downloads by the international readers. Watch the video!
Oct. 31, 2015: Our "Slippery Wenzel State" paper ranks NO. 1 among the most read articles in ACS Nano from October 2015 to September 2016. Please check it out!
Sep. 19, 2015: NSF Science360 reported our work of "Slippery Wenzel State". They specifically explained what Cassie and Wenzel states are. Watch the video!
Sep. 15, 2015: CCTV, the largest television broadcaster in China, reported our work of "Slippery Wenzel State". They envision the area of liquid repellent materials is promising and hope to provide guidance for Chinese investors. Watch the video!
April 17, 2023: Congratulations to Dylan for winning the prestigious DoE Fellowship!
January 4, 2023: Our work entitled "Pushing the Limit of Beetle-Inspired Condensation on Biphilic Quasi-Liquid Surfaces" is published in Advanced Functional Materials. Congratulations!
December 17, 2022: Our work entitled “Microchannel-Elevated Micromembrane for Sustainable Phase-Separation Condensation“ is published in Joule. Congratulations!
August 29, 2022: Our work entitled “Hydrophilic reentrant SLIPS enabled flow separation for rapid water harvesting“ is published in PNAS. Congratulations!
April 22, 2022: Congratulations to our group for winning the prestigious Assistant Professor Research Award in the Jonsson School!
April 20, 2022: Congratulations to Dylan for winning the prestigious "Excellence in Education Fellowship" in the Jonsson School!
March 16, 2022: Our work entitled “Quasi-Liquid Surfaces for Sustainable High-Performance Steam Condensation“ is published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. Congratulations!
November 19, 2021: Our work entitled “Sustainable Icephobicity on Durable Quasi-Liquid Surface“ is published in Chemical Engineering Journal. Congratulations!
November 3, 2021: Congratulations to Zongqi for successfully passing his Ph.D. defense!
June 10, 2021: Our group received the prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER Award. Congratulations!
June 9, 2021: Xianming (Simon) has been selected for the Outstanding Early Career Award at the 1st µFIP conference (former ICNMM series).
March 25, 2021: Our four-year work entitled “Hydrophilic slippery surface enabled coarsening effect for rapid water harvesting” is published in Cell Reports Physical Science. Congratulations!
January 3, 2021: Our work entitled “Gradient Quasi-Liquid Surface Enabled Self-Propulsion of Highly Wetting Liquids” is published in Advanced Functional Materials. Congratulations to Lei, Zongqi, and Jyoti.
July 16, 2020: Xianming (Simon) was invited to give a keynote presentation entitled “Bioinspired Surfaces for Sustainable Water Harvesting” at the ICNMM2020 conference.
April 7, 2020: Our work entitled "Passive Removal of Highly Wetting Liquids and Ice on Quasi-Liquid Surfaces" is published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. QLS can Repel Highly Wetting Liquids, provide Sustainable Water Harvesting, and let Wind Remove Ice.
November 18, 2019: Our work on "Quasi-Liquid Surface" received ASME Best Poster Award in the Micro and Nano Technology Forum. Congratulations to Lei Zhang, Zongqi Guo and Jyotirmoy Sarma.
August 24, 2019: Our group received the prestigious Young Investigator Award from Army Research Office. Congratulations!
August 12, 2019: Our group received an industrial grant to create durable self-cleaning coatings. Congratulations!
July 8, 2019: Xianming (Simon) Dai served as a track chair in the 6th ASME International Conference of Micro/Nanoscale Heat and Mass Transfer.
March 29, 2019: Annie Zhi Won the Second Prize of Materials Science in the 2018-19 Texas Science and Engineering Fair after competing with the best candidates from the entire Texas state. Congratulations! In February, she also won the First Prize in the Dallas Regional Fair as featured by Dallas Morning News!
March 20, 2019: Nature Materials wrote an article entitled "Drinking up mist" to highlight the scientific and engineering impacts of our work on bioinspired materials for water harvesting. Thanks Philip Ball at Nature Publishing Group.
July 27, 2018: Our group was hosting five kids from local high schools in the CAST/UTD STEM Bridge Summer Camp. Our team won the 1st place prize. Congratulations!
April 3, 2018: Our paper entitled "Hydrophilic Directional Slippery Rough Surfaces for Water Harvesting" has been highlighted by National Science Foundation Science360 as top story of the day.
April 2, 2018: Our work attracted extensive media attentions, such as ACS C&EN, New Scientist, Science Magazine, EurekAlert (AAAS), ZME Science, Science Daily, Nanowerk, Phys.Org, XINHUA NET, The University Network.
March 30, 2018: Our paper entitled "Hydrophilic Directional Slippery Rough Surfaces for Water Harvesting" is now published by Science Advances, the open access journal of Science publishing group (AAAS).
Feb. 9, 2018: Xianming (Simon) Dai served as a judge in the 2018 Plano ISD Secondary Science Fair for middle and high school students.
Feb. 11, 2017: The Dai group gave Tech Demos of Nature Inspired Liquid Repellent Coatings to local middle and high school students in 2017 National Engineers Week. Special thanks to our team!
Feb. 17, 2016: Our "Slippery Wenzel State" paper has been selected as one of the prestigious JALA Ten 2016. Each year, JALA seeks to highlight and honor the very best work of the year that will have a deep impact on how technology is used across a wide range of disciplines.
Dec. 28, 2015: Our bioinspired slippery surface has been successfully used for ultra-sensitive detection. The manuscript was directly submitted to the prestigious journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and got published online.
Nov. 6, 2015: ACS Nano invited us to submit a video about our work entitled "Slippery Wenzel State", due to its large number of downloads by the international readers. Watch the video!
Oct. 31, 2015: Our "Slippery Wenzel State" paper ranks NO. 1 among the most read articles in ACS Nano from October 2015 to September 2016. Please check it out!
Sep. 19, 2015: NSF Science360 reported our work of "Slippery Wenzel State". They specifically explained what Cassie and Wenzel states are. Watch the video!
Sep. 15, 2015: CCTV, the largest television broadcaster in China, reported our work of "Slippery Wenzel State". They envision the area of liquid repellent materials is promising and hope to provide guidance for Chinese investors. Watch the video!
