Prof. Gang Chen

Carl Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering
Director, Solid-State Solar-Thermal Energy Conversion Center (S3TEC Center)
Director, Pappalardo Micro and Nano Engineering Laboratories

Primary DLC

Department of Mechanical Engineering

MIT Room: 3-260

Assistant

Keke Xu
kekex@mit.edu

Areas of Interest and Expertise

Micro- and Nanoscale Heat Transfer and Energy Conversion with Applications in Thermoelectrics, Photonics and Microelectronics
Nano-Mechanical Devices and Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems
Radiation and Electromagnetic Metamaterials
Nanoengineered High Thermal Conductivity Soft Matters (Polymers, Colloids, and Liquids)
Desalination
Solar Energy Utilization
Energy Efficiency
Molding Compounds

Research Summary

Professor Chen's research interests include: Micro- and nanoscale heat transfer and energy conversion with applications in thermoelectrics, photovoltaics, solar thermal-energy to electrical energy conversion; and microelectronics; nano-mechanical devices and micro-electro-mechanical systems; radiation and electromagnetic metamaterials, nanoengineered high thermal conductivity soft matters (polymers, colloids, and liquids), and desalination.

Recent Work