NanoTherm Research Group

  • Congratulations to Varun! His work on Full spectrum solar thermal energy harvesting and storage is on cover page of Joule.

  • Congratulations to Varun! His work on Full spectrum solar thermal energy harvesting and storage is published in Joule.

  • Congratulations to Parham! His work on advanced functional surafces is published in Materials Horizons.

  • Congratulations to Peyman! He joined Intel as a principal scientist.

  • Congratulations to Varun! He defended his PhD dissertation successfully.

  • Congratulations to Bahareh! Her work on anti-biofouling surfaces is published in Soft Matter.

  • Congratulations to Peyman! His work on definition of icephobicity is published in Advances in colloid and interface science.

  • Congratulations to Nazanin! Our recent PhD alumni will pursue her career at Intel as a principal scientist.

  • Congratulations to Ali! His work on kinetics of hydrate growth is published in Review of Scientific Instruments.

  • Congratulations to Peyman! His work on stress-localized surafces is published in Materials Horizon.

  • Congratulations to Mojdeh! Her work on ultrahigh heat fluxes in nanochannels is published in Langmuir.

  • Congratulations to Peyman! He defended his PhD dissertation successfully.

  • Congratulations to Parham! He defended his MSc dissertation successfully.

  • Congratulations to Varun Kashyap for completion of PhD Program. We are proud of his accompolishments in the group and looking forward to his successuful career. (July 2019)

  • Congratulations to Varun! His work on a CO2 capture and conversion to drinking water is published in Sustainable Energy and Fuels. (January 2019)

  • Congratulations to Parham! His work on a new model of evapoartion is published in Langmuir. (January 2019)

  • Congratulations to Bahareh! She received Haripriya Sundararaju Scholarship. Only one scholarship is given annually to support female PhD students conducting research in the field of fluid dynamics.(December 2018)

  • Congratulations to Peyman Irajizad for completion of PhD Program. We are proud of his accompolishments in the group and looking forward to his successuful career.(December 2018)

  • Congratulations to Parham Jafari for completion of MSc Program. We are proud of his accompolishments in the group and looking forward to his successuful PhD studies.(December 2018)

  • Congratulations to Ali Masoudi for completion of PhD Program. We are proud of his accompolishments in the group and looking forward to his successuful career. (July 2018)

  • Congratulations to Abdullah Al Bayati for completion of his Honor thesis. Looking forward to his future accompolishments. (April 2018)

  • Congratulations to Nazanin Farokhnia for completion of PhD Program. We are proud of her accompolishments in the group and looking forward to her successuful future career. (April 2018)

  • Congratulations to Mohammmad! His work on surfaces for high heat dissipation is accepted in Applied Physics Letters.

  • Congratulations to Varun! His work on graphite films for solar desalination is accepted in Materials Chemistry A.

  • Congratulations to Kevin! He will join University of California, Berkeley for his college education in computer science.

  • Congratulations to Bahareh and Shadi! Their work on dispalcement flows is accepted in Physics of Fluids.

  • Congratulations to Ali! His work on antiscaling surfaces is published in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces.

  • Congratulations to Abdullah! He received internship to attend 2017 Harvard Business School Program.

  • Congratulations to Tam! She defended her honor thesis. We wish her success in the future career.

  • NASA ITech

    Hadi Ghasemi received top three innovator award of NASA iTech.

  • Congratulations to Peyman! His work on remote droplet manipulation is accepted in Advanced Materials Interfaces.

  • Congratulations to Abdullah! He received the competetive SURF award. Looking forward to hear his other success stories.

  • Congratulations to Peyman! He received the second best poster award in MRS UH-Chapter Symposium. The event is hilighted in UH Enginnering News. (April 2017)

  • Our work on icephobic surafecs is highlighted in UH Unct. (March 2017)

  • Congratulations to Nazanin!. Her work on suppresion of Leidenfrost Phenomenon is published in Langmuir. Her work is highlighted in UH Enginnering News. (March 2017)

  • Dr. Ghasemi received Larry Witte Fellowship. We are grateful for this honor. (February 2017)

  • Patnet on Electrochemical systems and methods for harvesting heat energy is publically released. United states 9559388. (January 2017)

  • Congratulations to James, Abdullah and Fernando for winning competetive PURS Scholrship. (January 2017)

  • Congratulations to Peyman! He received the best poster award in Micro-Nano Poster Forum of IMECE 2016. (November 2016)

  • Congratulations to Peyman!. His work on icephobic surafces is published in Nature Communications. A video on these novel surfaces is posted in Youtube. (November 2016)

  • Congratulations to Shadi Shariatnia, Bahareh Eslami, Seyed Mohammad Sajadi, Peyman Irajizad, and Nazanin Farokhnia for completion of Master of Science. We are proud of these accompolished members and wish the bests in their future careers. (November 2016)


  • Congratulations to Munib Hasnain for his honor thesis defence. We wish him the bests for his future studies. (November 2016)

  • Patnet on localized solar collectors is publically released. United states 9459024. (October 2016)

  • Nanotherm welcomes new PhD students Parham Jafari and Mojdeh Nazari. Looking forward to their success. (September 2016)

  • Nanotherm welcomes new undergraduate lab members James Russ, Abdullah Al-Bayati, and Fernanndo Rodriguez. (September 2016)

  • Congratulations to Fernando Rodriguez. He received Houston Scholar Funding scholarship. (August 2016)

  • Congratulations to James Russ. He received PURS scholarship. (August 2016)

  • Hadi Ghasemi recieved Bill D. Cook endowed faculty honor. This honor recongizes the scholary contribution of Nanotherm Group towrad the research and education.

  • Hadi Ghasemi recieved Teaching Excellence Award of College of Engineering. This award recognizes two faculties in each rank across the college of engineering that contribute substantialy toward the students education and success.

  • Congratulations to Munib Hasnain. He has been selected for a REU position in Frontiers in Science at Rice University center of Theoretical Biophysics working under supervision of Dr. Margaret Cheung.

  • Congratulations to Nazanin! Her work on Rational Micro-Nanostructuring for Thin Film Evaporation is Published in Journal of Physical Chemistry C. (February 2016)

  • Congratulations to Mohammad and Nazanin! Their work on Flexible artificially networked structure for high pressure solar steam generation is Published in Journal of Materials Chemistry A. (February 2016)

  • Nanotherm welcomes a new member, Varun Kashyap. Looking forward to his success.

  • Hadi Ghasemi is Awarded AFOSR Young Investigator Award. The story is highlighted in UH News.

  • Nanotherm hosted high school local students from Lemelson-MIT inventeams programs. The students were educated on the research conducted in the Nanotherm group. (April 2016)


  • Nanotherm hosted Girls students from Houston schools. The studets and their parents learned on the education and research in STEM fields and the impact of this field on society and human daily live. (March 2016)


  • Nanotherm welcomes a new member, Tam Nguyen. Looking forward to their success. (January 2016)

  • Micro-Nano Poster Forum chaired by Hadi Ghasemi is highlighted in the ASME news. (December 2015)

  • Congratulations to Peyman! He was one of the recipients of the best posters award in micro-nano forum in IMECE 2015. The picture is posted in the NEWS page.(December 2015)

  • Congratulations to Peyman and Nazanin for passing the PhD Qualification Exam! They are PhD candidate now. (November 2015)

  • Peyman and Nazanin work is on the cover page of Applied Physics Letters. (November 2015)

  • Congratulations to Peyman and Nazanin! Their work on nano droplets of ferrofluids is Published in Applied Physics Letters. (November 2015)

  • Peyman is a finalist for GRaSP Award. Only two graduate students from the Engineering College are qualified for the final round. (November 2015)

  • Congratulations to Peyman! Peyman has been awarded Bidani Scholarship. This award is given to the students with remarkable scholary achievements.(November 2015)

  • Peyman received the best posters award in micro-nano forum in IMECE 2015. He received his award by President of ASME, Dr. Julio C. Guerrero. (November 2015)


  • Congratulations to Munib Hasnain! Munib has been awarded PURS fellowship for fall research in NanoTherm. (August 2015)

  • Hadi Ghasemi has been awarded the Departmental Citizenship Award. (June 2015)

  • Congratulations to Munib Hasnain! Munib has been awarded SURF fellowship for summer research in NanoTherm. (June 2015)

  • Congratulations to Mohammad Ayub! His research is published in Energy. (February 2015)

  • NanoTherm is expanding! We are delighted to have a new member, Peyman Irajizad. Welcome Peyman! (January 2015)

  • Jay Hobstetter (high-school student in Houston) won first place in the Texas State Science Fair after success in Houston Science and Engineering Fair for his science work on "Water for a Thirsty World" inspired by our group research on solar steam generation. Congratulations Jay! (February 2015)


  • NanoTherm group gathering (March 2015)


  • NanoTherm Group representing the department of mechanical engineering at Science Engineering Fair of Houston (2015)



    • Congratulations to Abhilash as one of the recipients of American Society of Indian Engineers scholarship. (December 2014)

    • The article on "A Charging-free Electrochemical System for Harvesting Low-grade Thermal Energy" is accepted in PNAS.

    • The article on "Membrane-Free Battery for Harvesting Low-Grade Thermal Energy" is in press in Nano Letters.

    • Hadi Ghasemi interview on WTN nomination.

    • The article on "Continous fabrication of highly aligned polymers" is published in
      • TECHNOLOGY.
    • Hadi Ghasemi is one of the finalists for 2014 World Technology Award in Energy Category.

    • The solar steam generation by heat localization is highlighted in Nature and Economist.

    • The new approach for solar-steam generation is in the NEWS. The links are posted in the publication page.

    • The article on "Solar steam generation by heat localization" is published in Nature Communications.

    • The article on "Hybrid solar-geothermal system" is accepted in Applied Energy.

    • The work on low-grade heat harvesting is highlighted in MIT NEWS.

    • The article on a "An electrochemical system for highly efficient harvesting of low-grade heat energy" is published in Nature Communications.