Liquid-repellent surfaces, such as superhydrophobic surfaces, superoleophobic surfaces,
and slippery liquid-infused surfaces, have drawn keen research interest from the …

Liquid-vapor phase-change processes have been widely exploited in industrial applications
including power generation, water processing and harvesting, cooling/refrigeration and …

The rapid advancement of engineering systems has spurred the search for innovative
thermal management solutions. Boiling, as a phase‐change heat transfer method, has …

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

Controlled wetting of metallic surfaces is highly interesting in many practical applications,
from self-cleaning to drag reduction. Laser processing to obtain micro-/nano-textured …

In this study, the optimal surface pattern of low and high wettability regions for enhanced
boiling heat transfer is investigated using aluminum superbiphilic surfaces. Samples are …

In this paper, we experimentally investigate the pool boiling heat transfer on pillar-structured
surfaces with different wettability patterns and different values of the channel-to-pillar width …

Enhanced boiling heat transfer via surface engineering is a topic of general interest for its
great demand in industrial fields. However, as a dynamic interfacial phenomenon, a deep …

Over the past few decades, significant progress has been made in micro-and nanoscale
heat transfer. Numerous computational methods have been developed to quantitatively …

Open microchannels heat sink can reduce the pressure drop and mitigate the flow instability,
but the influence of wettability on the two-phase flow boiling for open microchannels …