Journal
NANO LETTERS
Volume 17, Issue 8, Pages 4813-4819Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b01620
Keywords
Capillary evaporation; thin film evaporation; kinetic limits; nanochannels; evaporation flux; evaporation kinetics; extended meniscus
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- American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund (ACS PRF) [54118-DNI7]
- Faculty Startup Fund (Boston University, U.S.A.)
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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 transport limits of capillary evaporation in nanoscale conduits, governed by the evaporation/condensation kinetics at the liquid vapor interface, have remained poorly understood. Here we report experimental study of the kinetic limits of water capillary evaporation in two dimensional nanochannels using a novel hybrid channel design. Our results show that the kinetic-limited evaporation fluxes break down the limits predicated by the classical Hertz Knudsen equation by an order of magnitude, reaching values up to 37.5 mm/s with corresponding heat fluxes up to 8500 W/cm(2). The measured evaporation flux increases with decreasing channel height and relative humidity but decreases as the channel temperature decreases. Our findings have implications for further understanding evaporation at the nanoscale and developing capillary evaporation-based technologies for both energy- and bio-related applications.
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