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ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS
卷 28, 期 16, 页码 -出版社
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201707000
关键词
biphilic surfaces; dropwise condensation; filmwise condensation; inverse opals; thin-film condensation
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资金
- Office of Naval Research (ONR) [N00014-16-1-2625, 1554249]
- NSF Engineering Research Center for Power Optimization of Electro Thermal Systems (POETS) [EEC-1449548]
- International Institute for Carbon Neutral Energy Research (WPI-I2CNER)
- Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
Water vapor condensation is a ubiquitous process in nature and industry. Over the past century, methods achieving dropwise condensation using a thin (<1 mu m) hydrophobic promoter layer have been developed, which increases the condensation heat transfer by ten times compared to filmwise condensation. Unfortunately, implementations of dropwise condensation have been limited due to poor durability of the promoter coatings. Here, thin-film condensation which utilizes a promoter layer not as a condensation surface, but rather to confine the condensate within a porous biphilic nanostructure, nickel inverse opals (NIO) with a thin (<20 nm) hydrophobic top layer of decomposed polyimide is developed. Filmwise condensation confined to thicknesses <10 mu m is demonstrated. To test the stability of thin-film condensation, condensation experiments are performed to show that at higher supersaturations droplets coalescing on top of the hydrophobic layer are absorbed into the superhydrophilic layer through coalescence-induced transitions. Through detailed thermal-hydrodynamic modeling, it is shown that thin-film condensation has the potential to achieve heat transfer coefficients approaching approximate to 100 kW m(-2) while avoiding durability issues by significantly reducing nucleation on the hydrophobic surface. The work presented here develops an approach to potentially ensure durable and high-performance condensation comparable to dropwise condensation.
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