As of November 2011, three (3) graduate students:
- Dr. Liwu Fan (Auburn) [thesis at http://etd.auburn.edu/etd/handle/10415/2707],
- Dr. Dan Clary (Auburn) [thesis at http://etd.auburn.edu/etd/handle/10415/2855],
- Mr. Peter Sakalakus (USA),
successfully defended their theses/dissertations.
Three (3) graduate students at Auburn (Mr. H. Babaei, Mr. Hamed Ghaednia) and
South Alabama (Mr. Nathan Brock) were recently awarded competitive Alabama
EPSCoR GRSP Fellowships to support their research from August 2012-August 2013.
Three NePCM papers authored by the Auburn PhD candidates, Mahmoud Moeini Sedeh, Yousef El Hasadi and Mahdi Nabil, were presented at the ASME 2012 Summer Heat Transfer Conference, July 8-12, Puerto Rico, USA.
Dr. Liwu Fan, formerly a PhD student at Auburn, also made a presentation at the same conference based on NePCM-related research he has conducted at Zhejiang University.
Professor Yi ZHANG of the School of Energy and Mechanical Engineering at the Nanjing Normal University joined Auburn's NePCM group. He has both theoretical and experimental background with phase change systems. He will conduct PCM research for one year as a visiting scholar.
Posted: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 15:54:07 | Updated: N/AFour Auburn PhD candidates, Yousef El Hasadi, Mahmoud Moeini Sedeh, Hasan Babaei and Mahdi Nabil, made presentations of their ongoing NePCM research at the 49th Annual Technical Meeting of the Society of Engineering Science that was held October 10-12 at Georgia Tech, Atlanta, Georgia.
Matthew Perrella, formerly an undergraduate student at Auburn who performed PCM-related research during his studies, also made a presentation in the Student Paper Contest segment of the conference.
A review article detailing recent developments on nanostructure-enhanced phase change materials was presented at the 8th International Symposium on Heat Transfer (ISHT-8) that was held October 21-24 in Beijing, CHINA. The paper was authored by M. Nabil, J. M. Khodadadi of Auburn and L. Fan of Zhejiang University. It was presented by Dr. Liwu Fan.
Posted: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 12:59:33 | Updated: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 13:01:46Nissan is reporting that oil containing nanoparticles (~ 0.5 percent by wt.) are being used for some of their engines. The article is at: