Daniel Attinger

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: The results show that the pH of the solution influences the dried deposit pattern, which can be ring-like or more uniform, and a phase diagram is proposed that explains three types of deposits commonly observed experimentally, such as a peripheral ring, a small central bump, or a uniform layer.

TL;DR: In this paper, the formation of deposits during the drying of nanoliter drops containing colloidal particles is investigated experimentally with microscopy and profilometry, and theoretically with an inhouse finite-element code.

TL;DR: In this article, the formation of deposits during the drying of nanoliter colloidal drops on a flat substrate is investigated numerically and experimentally, and a finite element numerical model is developed that solves the Navier-Stokes, heat and mass transport equations in a Lagrangian framework.