Featured News
NEIT Lab Researchers Honored with Invention of the Year Award
We are excited to share that Dr. Damena Agonafer, Principal Investigator of the NEIT Lab, and Ph.D. student Vivek Manepalli
NEIT Lab Team has a strong showing at the 2025 ARPA-e Energy Innovation Summit
The NEIT Lab at the University of Maryland proudly participated in the 2025 ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit in Washington, D.C.,
Professor Damena Agonafer, Honored with Presidential Early Career Award for 2025
The NEIT Lab proudly announces that its PI, Professor Damena Agonafer, has been awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists
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Featured Publications
Kong, D., Jung, E., Kim, Y., Manepalli, V. V., Rah, K. J., Kim, H. S., Hong, Y., Choi, H. G., Agonafer, D., and Lee, H., 2023, “An Additively Manufactured Manifold-Microchannel Heat Sink for High-Heat Flux Cooling,” International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 248, p. 108228.
Kong, D., Kim, K., Kang, M., Hong, Y., Kim, H.S., Rah, K., Choi, G., Guye, G., Agonafer, D., Lee, H., “Thermal hydraulic design of 3D manifold microchannel heat sinks for energy-efficient thermal management systems”, Case Studies in Thermal Engineering, 2021, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csite.2021.101583.
Guye, K., Dong, D., Kim, Y., Lee, H., Dogruoz, B., Agonafer, D., “Guidelines for designing micropillar structures for enhanced evaporative heat transfer”, Journal of Electronic Packaging, 2021, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4052465.
Agonafer, D., Miljkovic, N., Spector M.A., “Materials and Interface Challenges and Opportunities in High Vapor Quality Two-Phase Flow Boiling Research.”, IEEE Components & Transactions, 2021, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/TCPMT.2021.3085255.