Xianming (Simon) Dai

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Phone: 972-883-5449
Mail Box: ECW 31
Office: NSERL 4.704
800 West Campbell Rd.
Mailstop: ECW 31
Richardson, TX 75080-3021

Assistant Professor
of Mechanical Engineering

Post-Doc: Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, 2016

PhD, Mechanical Engineering, University of South Carolina, 2013.

MS, Thermal Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 2009

BS, Thermal Energy and Power Engineering, Chongqing University, 2007

Heat transfer, nanofabrication, microfluidics, mechanobiology, and clean water

Zongqi Guo, Lei Zhang, Deepak Monga, Howard A. Stone, Xianming Dai, “Hydrophilic Slippery Surface Enabled Coarsening Effect for Rapid Water Harvesting”, Cell Reports Physical Science, doi: 10.1016/j.xcrp.2021.100387 (2021).
Lei Zhang, Zongqi Guo, Jyotirmoy Sarma, Weiwei Zhao, Xianming Dai, “Gradient Quasi-Liquid Surface Enabled Self-Propulsion of Highly Wetting Liquids”, Advanced Functional Materials, doi: 10.1002/adfm.202008614 (2021).
Lei Zhang, Zongqi Guo, Jyotirmoy Sarma, and Xianming Dai, “Passive removal of highly wetting liquids and ice on quasi-liquid surfaces”, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 12 (2020) 20084-20095.
Xianming Dai, Nan Sun, Steven O. Nielsen, Birgitt Boschitsch Stogin, Jing Wang, Shikuan Yang, and Tak-Sing Wong, “Hydrophilic directional slippery rough surfaces for water harvesting”, Science Advances, 4 (2018) eaaq0919. [ESI highly cited paper. Highlighted by NSF Science360 and Nature Materials]
Xianming Dai, Birgitt Boschitsch Stogin, Shikuan Yang, and Tak-Sing Wong, “Slippery Wenzel State”, ACS Nano, 9 (2015) 9260-9267. [JALA top then breakthrough of the year]