Evaporation from thin films is a key feature of many processes, including energy conversion,
microelectronics cooling, boiling, perspiration, and self-assembly operations. The phase …

Evaporation plays a critical role in a range of technologies that power and sustain our
society. Wicks are widely used as passive, capillary-fed evaporators, attracting much interest …

Evaporation from nanopores plays an important role in various natural and industrial
processes that require efficient heat and mass transfer. The ultimate performance of …

Evaporation is a physical phenomenon with fundamental significance to both nature and
technology ranging from plant transpiration to DNA engineering. Various analytical and …

Capillary evaporation in nanoscale conduits is an efficient heat/mass transfer strategy that
has been widely utilized by both nature and mankind. Despite its broad impact, the ultimate …

Water vapor condensation is a ubiquitous process in nature and industry. Over the past
century, methods achieving dropwise condensation using a thin (< 1 µm) hydrophobic …

We present a high-heat-flux cooling device for advanced thermal management of
electronics. The device incorporates nanoporous membranes supported on microchannels …

This paper introduces a composite wall integrated with a solar chimney and a wet porous
layer for evaporation cooling without consumption of electrical power, in which the airflow is …

The performance and lifetime of advanced electronics are often dictated by the ability to
dissipate heat generated within the device. Thin film evaporation from nanoporous …

Two-phase liquid cooling on nanoengineered surfaces has shown great promise for tackling
overheating in high performance microelectronics. At the nanoscale, phase change heat …