Recent News

  • Congratulations! 洪簡揚於114年第四十九屆全國力學會議「學生論文競賽」中，榮獲熱流能源組第一名。Congrats! Jian-Yang Hung received First Place in the Thermal–Fluid & Energy Division of the Student Paper Competition at the 49th National Conference on Mechanics (Nov. 2025).
  • Congratulations! Prof. Ming-Chang Lu has been elected as a Fellow of ASME. (8/2025)
  • Congratulations! The paper titled "Transient pool boiling of water on copper tubes: An experimental analysis of transient heating, boiling hysteresis, and surface wettability" has been accepted for publication by International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer (SCI IF 5.0) as of July 2025.
  • Congratulations! The paper titled "Single Re-entrant micropillar arrays for enhanced pool boiling performance" has been accepted for publication by International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer (SCI IF 5.0) as of June 2025.
  • Congratulations! The paper titled "Droplets Impacting on Superheated Surfaces with Asymmetric Re-Entrant Microgrooves" has been accepted for publication by Small Methods (SCI IF 10.7) as of February 2025.
  • Congratulations! The paper titled "Enhancing Hydrogen Evolution Reaction through Coalescence-Induced Bubble Departure on Patterned Gold-Silicon Microstrip Surfaces" has been accepted for publication by ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces (SCI IF 8.5) as of January 2025.
  • Congratulations! The paper titled "Significant Magnon Contribution to Heat Transfer in Nickel Nanowires" has been accepted for publication by Materials Today Physics (SCI IF 10.0) as of November 2024.
  • Prof. Lu has been appointed to the Taiwanese Council of the International Association of Advanced Materials (IAAM), with the appointment taking effect in October 2024.
  • Congratulations! The paper titled "Sustained Condensation Efficiency on 3D Hybrid Surfaces" has been accepted for publication by Small Structures (SCI IF 13.9) as of October 2024.

Research Highlights

Enhancing Hydrogen Evolution Reaction through Coalescence-Induced Bubble Departure on Patterned Gold-Silicon Microstrip Surfaces (Huang et al., ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 2025 (SCI IF: 8,5))

Significant Magnon Contribution to Heat Transfer in Nickel Nanowires (Peng et al., Materials Today Physics, 2024 (SCI IF: 10.0))

Sustained Condensation Efficiency on 3D Hybrid Surface (Lo et al., Small Structures, 2024 (SCI IF: 13.9))

Join the Lab

​
Ongoing projects  in the Nano-Energy Lab  ​include:
  • Micro/Nano structures for enhancing condensation mass and heat transfer
  • Micro/Nano structures for enhancing pool/flow boiling heat transfer (Cooler Master)
  • Micro/Nano structures for enhancing impingement cooling
  • Investigating heat transfer in polymer nanofibers
  • Investigating heat and electricity transfer in ferromagnetic nanowires
  • Hotspot cooling using reduced graphene oxide papers
    
      MS/Ph.D. students' positions available!!!
​       Scholarships for International Ph.D. students.