Xianming (Simon) Dai
[email protected]
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
Education
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
Research Interests
Heat transfer, nanofabrication, microfluidics, mechanobiology, and clean water
Five Most Recent Journal Publications, Book Chapters, and Books
- 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, 2, 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, 31(13), 2008614 (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.
- Xianming Dai, Birgitt Boschitsch Stogin, Shikuan Yang, and Tak-Sing Wong, “Slippery Wenzel State,” ACS Nano, 9 (2015) 9260-9267.
Major Honors and Awards
- Outstanding Early Career Award at the 1st µFIP conference, 2021
- National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2021
- Army Research Office Young Investigator Award, 2019
- ASME Best Poster Award in the Micro and Nano Technology Forum, 2019
- Water harvesting work highlighted by Nature Materials in Material Witness, 2019
- 1st place prize in the STEM Bridge summer camp, 2018
- JALA Top Ten Breakthroughs Award, 2016