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- Water-repellent surfaces can efficiently boil water, keep electronics cool (Technical Progress) - May 7, 2018
- A variety of industrial applications such as power generation, water distillation, and high-density cooling rely on heat transfer processes involving boiling. Enhancements to the boiling process can improve the energy efficiency and performance across multiple industries. Highly wetting textured surfaces ... More ...
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- Surface phonon polaritons boost heat transfer ( physicsworld.com ) - May 7, 2018
- New insights into why heat transfer between objects is enhanced at very short separations have been gleaned by Keunhan Park and colleagues at the University of Utah and University of Pittsburgh in the US. The team made exquisitely precise measurements of how heat moves between two quartz ... More ...
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- DOE Concentrates on Solar Energy ( EurekAlert (press release) ) - May 28, 2018
- The mechanism depicted by the scientists will help in creating physically based combustion models required for the development of fundamentally ... More ...