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 …

Evaporative cooling has been widely used due to its environment-friendly characteristic of
cooling air by water evaporation. Nowadays, there are two common forms of evaporative …

Condensation is a ubiquitous phenomenon in nature and industry. Heat transfer rates during
dropwise condensation on non-wetting substrates can be 6-8X higher than heat transfer …

We experimentally realized and elucidated kinetically limited evaporation where the
molecular gas dynamics close to the liquid–vapour interface dominates the overall transport …

Capillary evaporation in nanoscale conduits is an efficient heat/mass transfer strategy that
has been widely utilized by both nature and mankind. Despite its broad impact, the ultimate …

Evaporation from nanopores plays an important role in various natural and industrial
processes that require efficient heat and mass transfer. The ultimate performance of …

High power density electronics are severely limited by current thermal management
solutions which are unable to dissipate the necessary heat flux while maintaining safe …

Phase change heat transfer is fundamentally important for thermal energy conversion and
management, such as in electronics with power density over 1 kW/cm2. The critical heat flux …

Evaporation is a ubiquitous phenomenon found in nature and widely used in industry. Yet a
fundamental understanding of interfacial transport during evaporation remains limited to …

Water is often considered as the highest performance working fluid for liquid–vapor phase
change due to its high thermal conductivity and large enthalpy of vaporization. However, a …