Condensation frosting and passive anti-frosting

S Yang, C Wu, G Zhao, J Sun, X Yao, X Ma… - Cell Reports Physical …, 2021 - cell.com
As exemplified by the extreme cold weather hitting central China and causing great
economic losses in 2018, as well as the 2021 Texas power crisis involving more than 4.5 …

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 …

Triple-scale superhydrophobic surface with excellent anti-icing and icephobic performance via ultrafast laser hybrid fabrication

R Pan, H Zhang, M Zhong - ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2020 - ACS Publications
Passive anti-icing or icephobic superhydrophobic surfaces have attracted great interest due
to their potential multifaceted implications for the prevention and/or easy removal of …

Robust micro-nanostructured superhydrophobic surfaces for long-term dropwise condensation

Y Tang, X Yang, Y Li, Y Lu, D Zhu - Nano Letters, 2021 - ACS Publications
Design of hierarchical micromorphology represents an important strategy for developing
functional surfaces but has yet to be achieved for promising long-term dropwise …

Review on condensation frosting and defrosting experiments for superhydrophobic surfaces

R Gao, M Song, CYH Chao, S Lin, L Zhang… - Applied Thermal …, 2024 - Elsevier
Frosting is a natural phase change phenomenon which happens frequently in nature and
industry and has negative effects on a variety of applications. As a passive anti-frosting …

Condensation droplet sieve

C Ma, L Chen, L Wang, W Tong, C Chu, Z Yuan… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Large droplets emerging during dropwise condensation impair surface properties such as
anti-fogging/frosting ability and heat transfer efficiency. How to spontaneously detach …

Recent developments, challenges, and pathways to stable dropwise condensation: a perspective

J Ma, S Sett, H Cha, X Yan, N Miljkovic - Applied Physics Letters, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Dropwise condensation (DWC) on non-wetting surfaces has remarkable potential to
enhance heat transfer performance compared to filmwise condensation on wetting …

Laplace pressure driven single-droplet jumping 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 …

Stable dropwise condensation of ethanol and hexane on rationally designed ultrascalable nanostructured lubricant-infused surfaces

S Sett, P Sokalski, K Boyina, L Li, KF Rabbi, H Auby… - Nano …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Vapor condensation is a widely used industrial process for transferring heat and separating
fluids. Despite progress in developing low surface energy hydrophobic and …

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 …