Weiwei Shi
Assistant Professor of Material Science at Duke Kunshan University
Dr. Shi's work, fog harps for water harvesting, was featured in CNN, Boston Globe, Digital Trends, and more. She was invited to exhibit fog harps at ACC Smithsonian Creativity and Innovation Festival, National Museum of American History. The fog harp was awarded the Innovation Award by Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology, and got the finalist at U.S. "Collegiate Inventors Competition"; Another representative work, synthetic trees as passive pump, was highlighted by U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL).
Current Appointments & Affiliations
- Assistant Professor of Material Science at Duke Kunshan University, DKU Faculty, Duke Kunshan University 2021
Contact Information
- Background
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Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., Virginia Polytech Institute and State University 2020
- Recognition
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In the News
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JUN 30, 2022 International Society of Bionic Engineering -
JUN 30, 2020 Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science -
APR 9, 2019 Oak Ridge National Lab -
NOV 8, 2018 National Inventors Hall of Fame -
OCT 14, 2018 Chemical & Engineering News, American Chemical Society -
JUN 8, 2018 The Verge -
APR 18, 2018 American Chemical Society -
APR 10, 2018 CNN -
MAR 30, 2018 Boston Globe
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Awards & Honors
- MII Scholarship. Macromolecules Innovation Institute. January 2020
- Amir Chand and Dewki Bai Batra Award. Virginia Tech. December 2019
- Finalist of “Collegiate Inventors Competition”. National Inventors Hall of Fame, USPTO. November 2018
- Innovation Award. Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology. May 2018
- Manuel Stein Scholarship. Virginia Tech. April 2018
- Publications & Artistic Works
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Selected Publications
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Academic Articles
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Shi, W., Cheng, X., & Cheng, K. (2022). Gecko-Inspired Adhesives with Asymmetrically Tilting-Oriented Micropillars. Langmuir : The Acs Journal of Surfaces and Colloids, 38(29), 8890–8898. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.2c01002Full Text
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Chen, K., Tao, Y., & Shi, W. (2022). Recent Advances in Water Harvesting: A Review of Materials, Devices and Applications. Sustainability (Switzerland), 14(10). https://doi.org/10.3390/su14106244Full Text
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Kowalski, N. G., Shi, W., Kennedy, B. S., & Boreyko, J. B. (2021). Optimizing Fog Harps. Acs Applied Materials &Amp; Interfaces, 13(32), 38826–38834. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.1c08995Full Text
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Eyegheleme, N. L., Shi, W., De Koninck, L. H., O’Brien, J. L., & Boreyko, J. B. (2021). Synthetic trees for enhanced solar evaporation and water harvesting. Applied Physics Letters, 118(25), 251601–251601. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0049904Full Text
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Shi, W., De Koninck, L. H., Hart, B. J., Kowalski, N. G., Fugaro, A. P., van der Sloot, T. W., … Boreyko, J. B. (2020). Harps under Heavy Fog Conditions: Superior to Meshes but Prone to Tangling. Acs Applied Materials &Amp; Interfaces, 12(42), 48124–48132. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.0c12329Full Text
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Shi, W., van der Sloot, T. W., Hart, B. J., Kennedy, B. S., & Boreyko, J. B. (2020). Harps Enable Water Harvesting under Light Fog Conditions. Advanced Sustainable Systems, 4(6), 2000040–2000040. https://doi.org/10.1002/adsu.202000040Full Text
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Shi, W., Dalrymple, R. M., McKenny, C. J., Morrow, D. S., Rashed, Z. T., Surinach, D. A., & Boreyko, J. B. (2020). Passive water ascent in a tall, scalable synthetic tree. Scientific Reports, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-57109-zFull Text
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Shi, W., Vieitez, J. R., Berrier, A. S., Roseveare, M. W., Surinach, D. A., Srijanto, B. R., … Boreyko, J. B. (2019). Self-Stabilizing Transpiration in Synthetic Leaves. Acs Applied Materials &Amp; Interfaces, 11(14), 13768–13776. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.9b00041Full Text
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Shi, W., Anderson, M. J., Tulkoff, J. B., Kennedy, B. S., & Boreyko, J. B. (2018). Fog Harvesting with Harps. Acs Applied Materials &Amp; Interfaces, 10(14), 11979–11986. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.7b17488Full Text
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Xu, T., Lin, Y., Zhang, M., Shi, W., & Zheng, Y. (2016). High-Efficiency Fog Collector: Water Unidirectional Transport on Heterogeneous Rough Conical Wires. Acs Nano, 10(12), 10681–10688. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.6b05595Full Text
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Shi, W., Wang, L., Guo, Z., & Zheng, Y. (2015). Excellent Anti-Icing Abilities of Optimal Micropillar Arrays with Nanohairs. Advanced Materials Interfaces, 2(18), 1500352–1500352. https://doi.org/10.1002/admi.201500352Full Text
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Zhang, M., Wang, L., Hou, Y., Shi, W., Feng, S., & Zheng, Y. (2015). Controlled Smart Anisotropic Unidirectional Spreading of Droplet on a Fibrous Surface. Advanced Materials, 27(34), 5057–5062. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201502143Full Text
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Wang, L., Zhang, M., Shi, W., Hou, Y., Liu, C., Feng, S., … Zheng, Y. (2015). Dynamic Magnetic Responsive Wall Array with Droplet Shedding-off Properties. Scientific Reports, 5(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/srep11209Full Text
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Wang, L., Shi, W., Hou, Y., Zhang, M., Feng, S., & Zheng, Y. (2015). Droplet Transport on a Nano- and Microstructured Surface with a Wettability Gradient in Low-Temperature or High-Humidity Environments. Advanced Materials Interfaces, 2(9), 1500040–1500040. https://doi.org/10.1002/admi.201500040Full Text
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Xue, Y., Wang, T., Shi, W., Sun, L., & Zheng, Y. (2014). Water collection abilities of green bristlegrass bristle. Rsc Adv., 4(77), 40837–40840. https://doi.org/10.1039/c4ra06661hFull Text
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Wang, H., You, T., Shi, W., Li, J., & Guo, L. (2012). Au/TiO2/Au as a Plasmonic Coupling Photocatalyst. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 116(10), 6490–6494. https://doi.org/10.1021/jp212303qFull Text
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Exhibitions, Screenings, & Performances
- Teaching & Mentoring
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Teaching Activities
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Analytical Chemistry
Inorganic Chemistry
Bio-Inspired Smart Materials
Capstone I - Signature Work
Capstone II - Signature Work
Research Independent Study
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Analytical Chemistry
- Scholarly, Clinical, & Service Activities
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Presentations & Appearances
- Redwood-Inspired Fog Harps for Efficient Water Harvesting. 43rd Annual Meeting of The Adhesion Society. February 2020 2020
- Redwood-Inspired Fog Harps for High-Efficiency Water Harvesting. 72nd Annual Meeting of American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics. November 2019 2019
- Redwood-Inspired Fog Harps. 8th International Conference on Fog, Fog Collection and Dew. July 2019 2019
- Self-Stabilizing Transpiration in Tall Synthetic Trees. Gordon Research Conference-Micro and Nanoscale Phase Change Heat Transfer. February 2019 2019
- Enhanced Water Evaporation with Floating Synthetic Leaves. 16th International Heat Transfer Conference (IHTC 16) . August 2018 2018
- Refreshing Music: Fog Harvesting with Harps. 70th Annual Meeting of American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics. November 2017 2017
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Outreach & Engaged Scholarship
- Member. International Society of Bionic Engineering. 2021 2021
- Member . American Adhesion Society . 2019 - 2020 2019 - 2020
- Member . International Fog and Dew Association. 2019 - 2020 2019 - 2020
- Member. Gordon Research Conferences. 2018 - 2019 2018 - 2019
- Member. American Physical Society . 2017 - 2020 2017 - 2020
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Service to the Profession
- Guest Editor. MDPI - [Sustainability]. 2021 - 2023 2021 - 2023
- Topic Editor. MDPI - [Micromachines]. 2021 - 2023 2021 - 2023
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