2026/06: New Grant (Ministry of Trade, Industry and Resources)

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• MEL receives new research funding from MOTIR.

• Topic: Integrating DTC Temperature Measurement and Active Control for High-Efficiency Data Center Cooling

2026/05: Award (Best Paper Runner-up)

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• Congratulations to Insik and co-authors for receiving the “ITHERM 2026 Best Paper Runner-up Award"

2026/05: Conference (2026 IEEE ITHERM)

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• Insik and Sangha attended the 2026 IEEE ITHERM conference in Orlando and gave 1 talk.

• Topic: Enhancing Two-Phase Direct Liquid Jet-Impingement Cooling With Etched and Laser-Ablated Pin-Fins for 2.5D Semiconductor Packages

2026/05: New Grant (BKT korea)

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• MEL receives new research funding from BKT korea.

• Topic: Design and Performance Analysis of Treated Wastewater-Based Data Center Cooling 

2026/05: New Grant (Ministry of Climate, Energy and Environment)

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• MEL receives new research funding from MCEE.

• Topic: Artificial Intelligence-Based Smart Cooling Methods

2026/04: Award (Outstanding Paper Award)

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• Congratulations to Seokwan and co-authors for receiving the “Outstanding Paper Award” from the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineering (KSME)!

2026/04: Conference (KSME Spring 2026)

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• Melers attended KSME Spring 2026 conference in Jeju and gave 8 talks.

​2026/03: New paper (Applied Thermal Engineering)

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• Please congrats Duhyeon, Junsang, Sanghun, Dr. Soosik Bang, Prof. Seokkan Ki, Prof. Nam, and co-authors for a publication at Applied Thermal Engineering!

• Title: A semi-analytical model predicting thermal performance of ultra-thin vapor chambers. Link

​2026/03: New members

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• New graduate students (Doyeop and Hojin) joined MEL, welcome all!

​2026/02: Graduation ceremony

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• Congratulations to our recent graduates Junyeong, Kangwon, and Doyeop!

​2026/01: New Patents

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• Congratulations to Prof. Seungtae Oh, Dr. Jaehwan Shim, and Prof. Nam for registering new patents!

• #10-2920951:Method for Manufacturing Polymer Insulator Comprising Microcapsules

• #10-2920952:Method for Manufacturing Polymer Insulator with Excellent Self-Healing Effect

• #10-2920953:Method for Manufacturing Polymer Insulator with Excellent Lifetime Characteristics and Durability

• #10-2920954:Method for Manufacturing Polymer Insulator Comprising Lubricant Coating Layer

​2026/01: New paper (Advanced Science)

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• Please congrats Donghyeong, Seokwan, Prof. Nam, and co-authors for a publication at Advanced Science!

• Title: Analysis of Multiscale Condensation Phenomena Using a Zero-Shot Computer Vision Framework. Link