News
December 16, 2018
David Gonzalez Cuadrado defended his PHD thesis and Kunal Thaker received his MS degree in December 2018.
August 3, 2018
Yuqiang Zeng earned his PhD and Prahlad Kulkarni received his MS degree this summer. We had several undergrads working in the lab as well.
May 12, 2018
Jaesik Hahn became the first MTEC PhD Student defends his thesis! Albraa Alsaati defended his MS thesis and will continue to the PHD program! Congratulations!
April 10, 2018
MTEC Undergrad Adrian Ruiz won first place at the Purdue Undergraduate Research Conference for his poster on Passive Thermal Management using Phase Change Materials
February 21, 2018
Albraa Alsaati presented his work at the AEESP Distinguished Lecturer Conference and Jaesik Hahn presented his work at the ME Sandbox Seminar Series this semester
October 1, 2017
PHD student Jaesik Hahn's work (in collaboration with the REID lab) is featured in this month's issue of Cosmetiscope!
September 1, 2017
Professor Amy Marconnet wins the ASME EPPD Woman Engineer of the Year Award for 2017 and David Gonzalez, Amy Marconnet, and Guillermo Panigua's paper on Inverse Metrology wins Outstanding Paper for the conference!
May 30, 2017
MTEC will have 3 paper presentations, one poster, and an entry to the Art of Science competition, and Prof Marconnet will participate in the panel on “NOVEL MATERIALS AND FABRICATION”.
November 20, 2016
MTEC celebrated another successful semester with dinner and bowling at the PMU.
October 4, 2016
Professor Marconnet and colleagues from MIT received a patent based off her work on localized heating structures based on carbon foams for enhanced evaporation of water in solar collecting systems.
June 22, 2016
Graduate students Aalok Gaitonde and Jaesik Hahn worked with the students to optimize the performance vs cost of heat exchangers.
April 12, 2016
Undergraduates Adrian Ruiz and Qianru Sally Jia participated in the Undergraduate Research and Poster Symposium on April 12. Adrian placed 2nd overall in the poster competition. Undergraduate Yu Han will participate in the Bottomley Undergraduate Research Scholarship Poster Show on April 27.
March 9, 2016
The joint research of PHD Student Jaesik Hahn, conducted in the Marconnet Thermal and Energy Conversion Lab and the REID lab, was featured in the Winter 2016 issue of Purdue's Engineering Impact Magazine.
December 4, 2015
Collier Miers, the first thesis student to graduate from the MTEC lab, defended his MS thesis on Dec 4, 2015! Congratulations, Collier!
October 6, 2015
MTEC and REID Lab work on thermal transport in hair featured in the news.
August 6, 2015
Qianru Sally Jia worked with graduate mentor Collier Miers throughout the summer to develop a 3d printer for nanoinks. The 3d printer will allow us to print thermoelectric devices on flexible substrates. She will present her work at the SURF Symposium on August 6 in the Armstrong Building.
August 3, 2015
Doctoral candidate Jaesik Hahn will present his work on "Integrating Design Methodology, Thermal Sciences, and Customer Needs to Address Challenges in the Hair Care Industry" at the ASME 2015 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information (DETC) in Engineering Conference on August 3, 2015.
May 20, 2015
MTEC Lab will have three presentations at InterPACK this summer
May 20, 2015
Professor Marconnet and several students interacted with members of the Cooling Technology Research Consortium (CTRC) over the past few days. Highlights of the event included a student poster session, where Yash Ganatra's poster on our Passive Phase Change Materials for Thermal Management won for first place.
March 27, 2015
Yuqiang Zeng and Liu Peng will present their work at the conference in San Francisco, CA in early April.
March 20, 2015
Prof Marconnet spoke at the JNCASR-Purdue Workshop on Nanomaterials for Energy in Bangalore, India on March 20, 2015
December 14, 2014
MTEC celebrated the end of the semester and all the hard work of the undergraduate and graduate students in the lab.
December 3, 2014
CNT TIM paper accepted for publication in TCPMT and Nanofluid Paper accepted for publication in Nano Letters
August 6, 2014
Undergradute SURF students Meng Pan and Yu Han will be presenting their work on "Thermal Properties of Soft Nanomaterials" at the SURF Research Symposium (Thursday Aug 7, 9 am - 5 pm in the Neil Armstrong Hall of Engineering).
June 19, 2014
Work conducted by Professor Marconnet and colleagues at MIT's NanoEngineering Group during and following her postdoc has been published in Nature Communications: "Solar Steam Generation by Heat Localization" by Hadi Ghasemi, George Ni, Amy Marconnet, James Loomis, Selcuk Yerci, Nenad Miljkovic, and Gang Chen.
May 29, 2014
Check out our work at several conferences this spring including ITCC and ITHERM.
May 13, 2014
Collier Miers and Yuqiang Zeng presented overviews of their work at the Cooling Technologies Research Center review today.
May 8, 2014
MTEC celebrated the end of the semester and all the hard work of the undergraduate and graduate students in the lab.
April 29, 2014
Collier Miers and Yuqiang Zeng presented their work for the first time at ITCC 2014 on April 29.
January 17, 2014
Our paper with collaborators at the National University of Singapore was accepted for publication in the journal Colloids and Surfaces A and preprints are available online already.
November 17, 2013
Collaborators with the M-TEC lab will present two talks at IMECE 2013 (Nov 15-21, 2013 in San Diego, CA).
August 16, 2013
Our comprehensive review of thermal transport in carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and CNT-based materials has been published in Reviews of Modern Physics.
August 12, 2013
Professor Amy Marconnet along with new graduate students Collier Miers and Yuqiang Zeng arrived at Purdue today starting the Marconnet Thermal & Energy Conversion (M-TEC) Lab.
July 18, 2013
Amy Marconnet presented two papers this week at the ASME 2013 Summer Heat Transfer Conference in Minneapolis, MN: "Impact of Phase Change on Thermal and Electrical Properties of Ionic Nanofluids" and "Thermal Transport across Self-Assembled Monolayers to Water".