Liquid-repellent surfaces, such as superhydrophobic surfaces, superoleophobic surfaces,
and slippery liquid-infused surfaces, have drawn keen research interest from the …

This paper provides a comprehensive review of published articles addressing passive
enhancement of pool boiling using surface modification techniques. They include …

Pool boiling with high energy conversion efficiency is critical to steam generation,
electronics cooling, water purification, and other energy applications. Great efforts have …

As an effective way to strengthen pool boiling, surface modification has been widely studied
by many scholars. In this paper, the enhancement of pool boiling heat transfer by regular …

Liquid–vapour phase change is a useful and efficient process to transfer energy in nature,
as well as in numerous domestic and industrial applications. Relatively recent advances in …

Boiling is an effective energy‐transfer process with substantial utility in energy applications.
Boiling performance is described mainly by the heat‐transfer coefficient (HTC) and critical …

While superhydrophilic coatings with enhanced wetting properties have been shown to
increase the pool boiling critical heat flux (CHF), the role of nanostructures on its …

Enhancing the critical heat flux (CHF) of industrial boilers by surface texturing can lead to
substantial energy savings and global reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, but …

Wettability of a material's surface plays a significant role in how fluids interact with such
surfaces. Wetting behavior is universal but can vary depending on the chemical nature of the …

Due to the outstanding physicochemical properties arising from its truly two-dimensional
(2D) planar structure with a single-atom thickness, graphene exhibits great potential for use …