Principal Investigator Sili Deng
Project Website http://deng.mit.edu/
The Deng Energy and Nanotechnology Group (DENG) is led by Dr. Sili Deng in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The research combines experiments and computations, bridges fundamentals and applications, and focuses on energy conversion and nanomaterial synthesis. Specifically, the group is interested in multi-phase reacting flows, flame synthesis of nanomaterials, nanocatalysis, combustion kinetics and dynamics, emission reduction, and thermal management in engines and power systems.
Research Interests(*) Energy Conversion: high-efficiency low-emission engines, waste heat recovery, energetic materials, photoelectrochemical devices(*) Flame Synthesis: Flame-based/flameless synthesis of nanomaterials for sensing, solar cells, and photoelectrochemical devices(*) Combustion: chemical kinetics, flame dynamics and combustion instability, pollutant formation and reduction(*) Multiphase chemically reacting flows: experimentation and computational fluid dynamics (CFD)