Climate change along with our insatiable need for energy demand a paradigm shift towards
more rational and sustainable use of energy. To drive this transition, the deployment of …

Pool boiling with high energy conversion efficiency is critical to steam generation,
electronics cooling, water purification, and other energy applications. Great efforts have …

Abstract Two-phase (liquid, vapor) flow in confined spaces is fundamentally interesting and
practically important in many practical applications such as thermal management, offering …

Both industrious and academic research societies have considered silicon (Si) as the most
promising anode for next-generation lithium ion batteries (LIBs) because silicon offers more …

Laser texturing, involving the creation of patterns on material surfaces, is considered an
efficient and facile approach to fabricate hierarchical surface structures on various material …

Boiling is an effective energy‐transfer process with substantial utility in energy applications.
Boiling performance is described mainly by the heat‐transfer coefficient (HTC) and critical …

Silicon (Si) is considered to be the most promising anode material to replace graphite due to
its higher theoretical capacity. Nanotechnology has played an important role in addressing …

Two-phase internal flow is ubiquitous to many systems due to its ability to transfer large
amounts of heat effectively. Recent advances motivated by sustainability have pushed …

Functionalized interfaces enhancing phase-change processes have immense applicability
in thermal management. Here, a methodology for fabrication of surfaces enabling extreme …

Enhancing critical heat flux (CHF) during boiling with structured surfaces has received much
attention because of its important implications for two-phase flow. The role of surface …