Thermal and fluid transport are inherent to many processes and realizing dramatic energy-efficiencies in convective transport impacts critical issues of national and international interests in energy, water, security, and health. Our primary research interests are in:
1. Thermal management: Electronics and photonics, directed energy weapons, cloud data centers, portable devices, batteries, automobiles, air/spacecraft, buildings
2. Energy and water: Energy-efficiency, heat exchangers, thermodynamic cycles, portable and distributed power, thermal energy storage, waste heat recovery, enhanced water desalination
3. Space transportation: Long-duration missions, cryocoolers, compact heat exchangers, propellant management and zero boil-off
4. Scalable micro-/nano-manufacturing: Bulk micro-manufacturing/wet etching, micro-milling, micro- and nano-scale surface modification, rapid prototyping, diffusion bonding, surface patterning
Some of the tailored surfaces that we designed, created, and/or analyzed for enhancing single-phase and two-phase convective transport include:
sire (verb): ‘to create’ 
