Review of droplet dynamics and dropwise condensation enhancement: Theory, experiments and applications

X Wang, B Xu, Z Chen, D Del Col, D Li, L Zhang… - Advances in Colloid and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Droplet dynamics and condensation phenomena are widespread in nature and industrial
applications, and the fundamentals of various technological applications. Currently, with the …

Biological and engineered topological droplet rectifiers

J Li, J Li, J Sun, S Feng, Z Wang - Advanced Materials, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The power of the directional and spontaneous transport of liquid droplets is revealed
through ubiquitous biological processes and numerous practical applications, where …

Droplet jum**: effects of droplet size, surface structure, pinning, and liquid properties

X Yan, L Zhang, S Sett, L Feng, C Zhao, Z Huang… - ACS …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Coalescence-induced droplet jum** has the potential to enhance the efficiency of a
plethora of applications. Although binary droplet jum** is quantitatively understood from …

Tuning superhydrophobic nanostructures to enhance jum**-droplet condensation

MD Mulroe, BR Srijanto, SF Ahmadi, CP Collier… - ACS …, 2017 - ACS Publications
It was recently discovered that condensation growing on a nanostructured
superhydrophobic surface can spontaneously jump off the surface, triggered by naturally …

Dropwise condensation: From fundamentals of wetting, nucleation, and droplet mobility to performance improvement by advanced functional surfaces

SF Zheng, U Gross, XD Wang - Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, 2021 - Elsevier
As a ubiquitous vapor-liquid phase-change process, dropwise condensation has attracted
tremendous research attention owing to its remarkable efficiency of energy transfer and …

Laplace pressure driven single-droplet jum** on structured surfaces

X Yan, Y Qin, F Chen, G Zhao, S Sett, MJ Hoque… - Acs Nano, 2020 - ACS Publications
Droplet transport on, and shedding from, surfaces is ubiquitous in nature and is a key
phenomenon governing applications including biofluidics, self-cleaning, anti-icing, water …

Rationally 3D-textured copper surfaces for laplace pressure imbalance-induced enhancement in dropwise condensation

CS Sharma, C Stamatopoulos, R Suter… - … applied materials & …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Enhancing the thermal efficiency of a broad range of condenser devices requires means of
achieving sustainable dropwise condensation on metallic surfaces, where heat transfer can …

Hierarchical condensation

X Yan, F Chen, S Sett, S Chavan, H Li, L Feng, L Li… - ACS …, 2019 - ACS Publications
With the recent advances in surface fabrication technologies, condensation heat transfer has
seen a renaissance. Hydrophobic and superhydrophobic surfaces have all been employed …

Bioinspired robust water repellency in high humidity by micro-meter-scaled conical fibers: toward a long-time underwater aerobic reaction

Z Tang, P Wang, B Xu, L Meng, L Jiang… - Journal of the American …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Superhydrophobic surfaces have suffered from being frequently penetrated by micro-/nano-
droplets in high humidity, which severely deteriorates their water repellency. So far, various …

Jum** droplets

JB Boreyko - Droplet, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
When microdroplets with quasi‐spherical contact angles coalesce together on a low‐
adhesion substrate, the capillary‐inertial expansion of the liquid bridge induces a dramatic …