XIANMING (SIMON) DAI
Dai@utdallas.edu
Phone: 972-883-5449
Mail Box: ECW 31
Office: NSERL 4.704
800 West Campbell Rd.
Mailstop: ECW 31
Richardson, TX 75080-3021
Associate Professor
Education
Post-Doc: Mechanical 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, surface science, microfluidics, thermal management, and water sustainability
Five Most Recent Journal Publications, Book Chapters, and Books
- Li Shan, Zongqi Guo, Deepak Monga, Dylan Boylan, and Xianming Dai, “Microchannel-elevated micromembrane for sustainable phase-separation condensation“, Joule, 7(1), 168-182 (2023).
- Dylan Boylan, Deepak Monga, Li Shan, Zongqi Guo, and Xianming Dai, “Pushing the Limit of Beetle-Inspired Condensation on Biphilic Quasi-Liquid Surfaces“, Advanced Functional Materials, 33(11), 2211113 (2023).
- Zongqi Guo, Dylan Boylan, Li Shan, and Xianming Dai, “Hydrophilic reentrant SLIPS enabled flow separation for rapid water harvesting“, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(36), e2209662119 (2022).
- 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).
- 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.
Major Honors and Awards
- DARPA Young Faculty Award, 2023
- National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2021
- Army Research Office Young Investigator Award, 2019
- UT Dallas Jonsson School Assistant Professor Research Award, 2022
- Outstanding Early Career Award at the 1st µFIP conference, 2021
- Water harvesting work highlighted by Nature Materials in Material Witness, 2019
- JALA Top Ten Breakthroughs of the Year, 2016