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Jonathan Boreyko, Principal Investigator

Jonathan Boreyko is an Associate Professor at Virginia Tech in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Dr. Boreyko received B.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Physics from Trinity College (2007) and a Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science from Duke University (2012) under Professor Chuan-Hua Chen. Prof. Boreyko has won the 2019 ASME ICNMM Early Career Award, the AFOSR YIP Award, and the NSF CAREER award. His research has been covered by Science Magazine, The New York Times, Discovery Channel Canada, and Popular Science. His current research interests include condensation and frost phenomena, fabricating micro/nano-patterned surfaces with special wettability, and designing fluidic systems inspired by nature for heat transfer and water harvesting applications.

boreyko@vt.edu
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2014-15: Numerical Modeling of Human Crowd Dynamics (co-advised with Prof. Nicole Abaid)
- William Doty
- Pat Greer
- Hunter Morgan
- Josam Waterman
  - Published results in New Journal of Physics.
2015-16: Superhydrophobic Aluminum as a Solution to Frost Growth on Wind Turbine Blades
- Caitlin Bisbano
- Dave Gerard
- Scott Holland
- Kevin Murphy
- Tim Zehnbauer
2016-17: SMART Blanket: Snowbank Melting by Application of Radiation Transfer
- Matthew Fox
- Owen Hansen
- Andrew Sheen
- Kristen Swedberg
- Karl Vitale
- Sarah Wray
  - Published results in Langmuir.
2017-18: Characterization of a Macroscale Synthetic Tree
- Richard Dalrymple
- Collin McKenny
- David Morrow
- Ziad Rashed
- Daniel Surinach
  - Published results in Scientific Reports.

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Latest News

10/6/20: Our paper on how Fog Harps operate in a heavy outdoor fog has been published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. Congrats to Weiwei and team!

8/18/20: Congrats to Mojtaba, Kevin, and Ranit for their paper on bridging-droplet thermal diodes getting published in Advanced Functional Materials!

6/11/20: Prof. Boreyko has received tenure with promotion to associate professor. A big thanks to my mentors, Prof. Chuan-Hua Chen and Dr. Patrick Collier, collaborators, and all of my wonderful students who made this possible!

4/16/20: Read this new paper in Advanced Sustainable Systems to find out how Fog Harps can harvest water even in a light fog! Congrats to Weiwei, Thomas, Brandon, and Prof. Kennedy!

3/30/20: Congrats to Viverjita for defending her MS thesis! We will miss you but are excited about your future adventures in ecology.

3/24/20: Weiwei has successfully defended her PhD thesis! Thanks for all of your outstanding work on the Fog Harp and synthetic tree projects, NIFI will miss your bright presence in our group!

2/18/20: Congrats to Pranav, Tejas, and Andrew, for their paper in Langmuir on using evaporating droplets to characterize hygroscopic materials.

2/7/20: Congrats to Saurabh and Farzad, who captured the physics of inter-droplet ice bridging in their new Soft Matter paper.

1/15/20: Congrats to Kaavya for winning the MII Adhesive Manufacturing Scholarship for her research with NIFI!

1/14/20: Congrats to Weiwei and the senior project team of Richard, Collin, David, Ziad, and Daniel, whose paper in Scientific Reports shows how to build a tall and scalable synthetic tree.

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