Mentor Areas
Professor Yang's research interests include design, synthesis, and fabrication of nano-/microstructured materials (both soft and hard, and their composites).
Description:
Climate change has caused extreme weathers such as increasing humidity in certain areas (such as Philadelphia) but extreme dryness in other areas (such as California). High humidity not only is uncomfortable, but will have adverse effect to your body. Too much heat can be dangerous, but combining it with high humidity, your body won’t be able to perspire effectively to cool off. We would like to develop coatings that will absorb humid gas in air, together with kirigami structures (to direct aerodynamics) to remove humidity efficiently in the room, and during drying of food.
The goal of this project is to develop highly efficient moisture capturing materials as coatings.
The student will work with materials scientists and mechanical engineers and be mentored by a senior PhD student or postdoc fellow in Prof. Yang’s lab.
Preferred Qualifications
Students majoring in Materials Science and Engineering, Chemical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering are desired.
Project Website
Learn more about the researcher and/or the project here. https://shuyang.seas.upenn.edu/reducing-food-industry-carbon-emissions-with-adv…
Details:
Preferred Student Year
Second-Year, Junior
Academic Term
Summer
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Yes
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Yes
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