Daniel J. Preston

TL;DR: In the high flux regime, the importance of convective transport caused by evaporation itself and Fick's first law of diffusion no longer applies is shown and paves the way for high flux phase-change devices.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of millimetric surface structures on dropwise condensation heat transfer under two different environments: pure vapor and an air-vapor mixture were investigated, and experimental results showed that, although convex structures enable faster droplet growth in an air vapor mixture, the same structures impose the opposite effect during pure vapor condensation, hindering droplet expansion.

TL;DR: A nanostructured surface that can repel liquids even during condensation is shown, consisting of isolated reentrant cavities with a pitch on the order of 100 nm to prevent droplets from nucleating and spreading within all structures.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider the eletrically-induced ejection of droplets from substrates of finite wettability and analyze how the energy conversion efficiency is affected by the applied voltage and the intrinsic contact angle of the droplet on the substrate.

TL;DR: The high-throughput capacity of this integrated MagLev system will enable new applications in chemistry and biochemistry in a simple and label-free format on the basis of a universal property of all matter, i.e., density.