Xiulin Ruan: Sustainable Energy and Nanoscale Transport Lab

Website: https://engineering.purdue.edu/NANOEN...
Creator of the world's whitest paint, certified Guinness World Record holder with thousands of media appearances! Our lab focuses on sustainable energy, thermal management, and energy storage. Current research themes include:
(1) Atomistic simulations of thermal transport for sustainable energy and electronics thermal management applications;
(2) Nanocomposites and bio-inspired nanostructures for radiative cooling;
(3) Machine learning, optimization, and high throughput design;
(4) Additive manufacturing of materials and devices. These projects involve theoretical, computational, and experimental components.
Currently our lab devotes ~60% efforts to theoretical and simulation studies, and ~40% to experimental work. Theoretical tools include heat transfer, materials science, quantum mechanics, solid state physics, optics, and electromagnetic theory. Computational tools involve machine learning, molecular dynamics, first principles calculations, Monte-Carlo simulations, Boltzmann transport theory, and finite element/difference/volume methods. Experimental tools include fabrication or additive manufacturing of nanomaterials and devices, characterizations of these materials and devices using advanced imaging and spectroscopy techniques, and system testing.

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Website: https://engineering.purdue.edu/NANOEN...
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