News

September, 2023: Chu-Yao passes his Ph.D. thesis defense. Congratulations, Dr. Chou!

December, 2022: Dr.Chung-Te Huang joins our lab as our first post-doc researcher.

December, 2022: Yixin passes her Ph.D. thesis defense. Big Big Congratulations, Dr. Xu!

September, 2022: Liangwei Zheng joins our lab. Welcome, Liangwei!

August, 2022: Rami passes his Ph.D. thesis defense. Big Big Congratulations, Dr. Yazbeck!

July, 2022: Our paperNanoparticle-blockage-enabled rapid and reversible nanopore gating with tunable memory” was published in PNAS.

July, 2022: Siyang passes his Ph.D. thesis defense. Big Big Congratulations, Dr. Xiao!

December, 2021: Yiding Zhong joins our lab. Welcome, Yiding!

September, 2019: Chu-Yao Chou joins our lab. Welcome, Chu-Yao!

August, 2018: Prof. Duan wins the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Young Faculty Award (YFA). Congratulations!

March, 2018: Our paperFast water transport in graphene nanofluidic channels” was published in Nature Nanotechnology.

May, 2017: Quan’s dissertation titled “Enhanced Mass Transport in Graphene Nanofluidics Channels” wins “Outstanding Dissertation of the Year in Mechanical Engineering” and the overall “College of Engineering Societal Impact Award”. Congratulations! 

August, 2017: Quan passes his thesis defense for Enhanced Mass Transport in Graphene Nanofluidic Channels. Congratulations, Dr. Xie!

May, 2017: Prof. Duan’s Rapid and Scalable Patterning of Conjugated Polymer Thin Films With Controlled Morphology wins 2017 MSE Innovation Grants. Congratulations!

March 2017: Prof. Duan receives the National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award! Big Cong!  BU link

December, 2016: Yinxiao passes his thesis defense for Micro/Nano Structured Phase Change Systems for Thermal Management Applications. Congratulations Dr. Li!

August, 2016: Mohammad passes his thesis defense, Characterization of Molecule and
Particle Transport through Nanoscale Conduits. Congratulations, Dr. Alibakhshi!

June, 2013: Yinxiao Li decides to join the lab. Welcome, Yinxiao!

January, 2013: Zhuoqun Li joins us from Tsinghua University. Welcome, Zhuoqun!

September, 2012: Senior ME undergraduate student, Bin Jiang joins the group. Welcome, Bin!

September, 2012: Quan Xie joins us from UMich. Welcome, Quan!

August, 2012: Ke Zhang decides to join the lab. Welcome, Ke!

May, 2012: Chuanhua wins a Dean’s Catalyst Award for his proposal titled “Enhanced Fluid Transport in Graphene Nanochannels” (with Prof. Xin Zhang and Prof. Xi Lin).  BU link

January, 2012: Our paperEvaporation-induced cavitation in nanofluidic channels” was published in PNAS.

January , 2012: Mohammad Amin Alibakhshi joins the group as the first PhD student.