Microscale evaporative cooling technologies for high heat flux microelectronics devices: Background and recent advances

MM Nahar, B Ma, K Guye, QH Chau, J Padilla… - Applied Thermal …, 2021 - Elsevier
Evaporation of liquid is important in a diverse range of engineering applications, such as ink-
jet printing, pesticide spraying, micro-and nanofabrication, thin-film coatings, biochemical …

Bridging Innovations of Phase Change Heat Transfer to Electrochemical Gas Evolution Reactions

L Zhang, R Iwata, Z Lu, X Wang, CD Díaz-Marín… - Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Bubbles play a ubiquitous role in electrochemical gas evolution reactions. However, a
mechanistic understanding of how bubbles affect the energy efficiency of electrochemical …

Three-dimensional water evaporation on a macroporous vertically aligned graphene pillar array under one sun

P Zhang, Q Liao, H Yao, H Cheng, Y Huang… - Journal of Materials …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Efficient harvesting of solar radiation into exploitable thermal energy for fast generation of
clean water has been a recent research focus. However, solar steam generation (SSG) is …

Capillary-driven liquid film boiling heat transfer on hybrid mesh wicking structures

R Wen, S Xu, YC Lee, R Yang - Nano Energy, 2018 - Elsevier
Thermal management of high power electronic systems such as advanced lasers, light
emitting diodes, radars, microprocessors, electrical machines, and power inverters, is …

Capillary-driven evaporation of superhydrophilic copper foams with ultra-high porosity

C Lv, L Xu, J Du, J Liang, B Ma, H Yang, D Chen… - … Communications in Heat …, 2024 - Elsevier
Capillary-driven evaporation in porous wicks widely exists in vapor chambers, heat pipes,
etc. Porous wicks with high porosity are expected to increase critical heat flux (CHF). Here …

[HTML][HTML] Capillary-fed, thin film evaporation devices

G Vaartstra, L Zhang, Z Lu, CD Díaz-Marín… - Journal of Applied …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
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 …

A unified relationship for evaporation kinetics at low Mach numbers

Z Lu, I Kinefuchi, KL Wilke, G Vaartstra… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
We experimentally realized and elucidated kinetically limited evaporation where the
molecular gas dynamics close to the liquid–vapour interface dominates the overall transport …

Ultrafast diameter-dependent water evaporation from nanopores

Y Li, H Chen, S **ao, MA Alibakhshi, CW Lo, MC Lu… - ACS …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Evaporation from nanopores plays an important role in various natural and industrial
processes that require efficient heat and mass transfer. The ultimate performance of …

Nanoporous membrane device for ultra high heat flux thermal management

DF Hanks, Z Lu, J Sircar, TR Salamon… - Microsystems & …, 2018 - nature.com
High power density electronics are severely limited by current thermal management
solutions which are unable to dissipate the necessary heat flux while maintaining safe …

Enhanced capillary‐fed boiling in copper inverse opals via template sintering

C Zhang, JW Palko, MT Barako… - Advanced Functional …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Capillary‐fed boiling of water from microporous metal surfaces is promising for low thermal
resistance vapor chamber heat spreaders for hot spot management. Vapor transport through …