Yuying Yan recently organised a workshop in Nottingham (based on their Sustainable Construction iNet projects) to introduce their recent progress to the Building Services companies. This included 1) novel building block of thermoelectric co-generations ...(this is also concerned with novel application of heat pipes), also 2) electro-osmosis solid dehumidification (this is concerned with two phase flow porous media or microchannels).
Yuying reported that they have also made good progress using nano particles to generate super-hydrophobic surfaces based on the lotus leaf effect.
Yuying can be contacted on: yuying.yan@nottingham.ac.uk