Amy Rachel Betz

TL;DR: In this article, the authors characterized pool boiling on surfaces with wettabilities varied from superhydrophobic to super-hydrophilic, and provided nucleation measurements, and developed an analytical model that describes how biphilic surfaces effectively manage the vapor and liquid transport, delaying critical heat flux and maximizing the heat transfer coefficient.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors demonstrate that smooth and flat surfaces combining hydrophilic and hydrophobic patterns improve pool boiling performance, up to a 65% and 100% increase in critical heat flux and heat transfer coefficients.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors make the argument that optimum surfaces need to address the specificities of phase change heat transfer in the way that a key matches its lock, which calls for the design and fabrication of adaptive surfaces with multiscale textures and non-uniform wettability.

TL;DR: In this article, a polycarbonate heat sink consisting of an array of seven parallel micro-channels with a square cross-section 500μm wide was designed to increase the Nusselt number of laminar flow by more than 100% provided the mass velocity of the liquid is within the range 330-2000 kg/m2

TL;DR: In this paper, the fabrication techniques available for metallic and silicon-based surfaces, considering sintered and polymeric coatings, are reviewed and the influence of such surfaces in multiphase processes of high practical interest, e.g., boiling, condensation, freezing and the associated physical phenomena are reviewed.