Review of jet impingement cooling of electronic devices: Emerging role of surface engineering

S Sarkar, R Gupta, T Roy, R Ganguly… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
The rising requirements of computing capability with an ever-declining packaging volume
has triggered a global surge in the thermal management industry of electronic devices over …

[HTML][HTML] Ambient-mediated wetting on smooth surfaces

D Orejon, J Oh, DJ Preston, X Yan, S Sett… - Advances in Colloid and …, 2024 - Elsevier
A consensus was built in the first half of the 20th century, which was further debated more
than 3 decades ago, that the wettability and condensation mechanisms on smooth solid …

Functional of thin-film composite Janus membrane with sacrificial layer for inorganic scaling control in membrane distillation

Z Yan, S Lin, H Chang, J Xu, W Dai, D Qu… - Journal of Membrane …, 2024 - Elsevier
Membrane distillation technology, utilized for treating hypersaline wastewater from seawater
desalination, often encounters challenges related to inorganic scaling, adversely affecting …

Laser‐Tuned Surface Wettability Modification and Incorporation of Aluminum Nitride (AlN) Ceramics in Thermal Management Devices

A Mukhopadhyay, A Pal, S Sarkar… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Aluminum nitride (AlN), a versatile ceramic with high thermal conductivity, high electrical
resistivity, and a coefficient of thermal expansion compatible with silicon, is well‐suited for …

Microplastics in sea ice: A fingerprint of bubble flotation

I Chubarenko, I Bocherikova, E Esiukova… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Sea ice is heavily contaminated with microplastics (MPs), with the repeatedly confirmed
increased number of larger-sized particles, deficit of fibers, and prevalence of materials …

Droplet orthogonal impact on nonuniform wettability surfaces

S Moitra, M Elsharkawy, A Russo, S Sarkar… - Droplet, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The vast majority of prior studies on droplet impact have focused on collisions of liquid
droplets with spatially homogeneous (ie, uniform‐wettability) surfaces. But in recent years …

Contact angle of ethanol, water, and their mixtures on stainless steel surfaces in dense carbon dioxide

A Fabien, G Lefebvre, E Badens, B Calvignac… - Journal of Colloid and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Hypothesis Contact angle can be a key parameter in chemical engineering. However, the
development and the optimization of numerous processes using supercritical CO 2 …

[HTML][HTML] Wick-free vapor chamber featuring laser-textured surfaces: A new paradigm for ultra-thin high-efficiency heat spreaders

A Pal, A Mukhopadhyay, CM Megaridis - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2025 - Elsevier
The advent of high power-density devices in both electronics and battery systems has re-
invigorated interest towards vapor chambers (VCs) and heat pipes for effective heat …

Droplet morphology-based wettability tuning and design of fog harvesting mesh to minimize mesh-clogging

A Mukhopadhyay, A Datta, PS Dutta, A Datta… - Langmuir, 2024 - ACS Publications
Fog harvesting relies on intercepting atmospheric or industrial fog by placing a porous
obstacle, for example, a mesh and collecting the deposited water. In the face of global water …

Sprayable Superoleophobic Coatings for Pumpless Handling of Low‐Surface‐Tension Liquids

S Moitra, CM Megaridis - Advanced Materials Interfaces, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Limited attention has been paid to repellency and wettability‐confined transport of low‐
surface‐tension liquids, such as oils, alcohols, and hydrocarbons. This is because …