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Tak-Sing Wong

A close up of a mosquito.

Enhanced water repellent surfaces discovered in nature

Birgitt Boschitsch at an event honoring the 30 Under 30 in Science by Forbes magazine for 2020.

Mechanical engineering alumna named to Forbes' 30 Under 30 in Science

A toilet bowl

New, slippery toilet coating provides cleaner flushing, saves water

Tak-Sing Wong, Jackie O'Connor, Tim Simpson, and Chris Rahn

ASME honors mechanical engineering faculty with top international awards

Tak-Sing Wong, assistant professor of mechanical and biomedical engineering

Wong honored with ASME's 2018 Sia Nemat-Nasser Early Career Award

Boschitsch

Engineering to benefit humanity: Student looks to developing nations

unconventional membrane

Self-healing reverse filter opens the door for many novel applications

The team's mentor, Tim Hurley, mechanical engineering doctoral students Nan Sun, Birgitt Boschitsch, and Jing Wang, and Tak-Sing Wong, assistant professor of mechanical engineering.

Engineering team wins grand prize for water-saving, impactful tech

three panel comparison

Microengineered slippery rough surface for water harvesting from air

Synthetic brochosomes

Synthetic material acts like an insect cloaking device

Tak-Sing Wong

Engineering's Wong recognized for work in bioinspired synthetic materials

SLIPSERS

Single molecule detection of contaminants, explosives or diseases now possible

Tak-Sing Wong and student

Mechanical engineering's Wong awarded Wormley Family Early Career Professorship

slippery surface schematic

An engineered surface unsticks sticky water droplets