材料科学
冷凝
润湿
接触角
聚结(物理)
表面能
化学工程
传热
化学物理
纳米技术
热力学
复合材料
化学
物理
天体生物学
工程类
作者
Dylan Boylan,Deepak Monga,Li Shan,Zongqi Guo,Xianming Dai
标识
DOI:10.1002/adfm.202211113
摘要
Abstract Massive studies concern the development of low‐carbon water and energy systems. Specifically, surfaces with special wettability to promote vapor‐to‐liquid condensation have been widely studied, but current solutions suffer from poor heat transfer performances due to inefficient droplet removal. In this study, the limit of condensation on a beetle‐inspired biphilic quasi‐liquid surface (QLS) in a steam environment is pushed, which provides a heat flux 100 times higher than that in atmospheric condensation. Unlike the beetle‐inspired surfaces that have sticky hydrophilic domains, the biphilic QLS consists of PEGylated and siloxane polymers as hydrophilic and hydrophobic quasi‐liquid patterns with the contact angle hysteresis of 3° and 1°, respectively. More importantly, each hydrophilic slippery pattern behaves like a slippery bridge that accelerates droplet coalescence and removal. As a result, the condensed droplets grow rapidly and shed off. It is demonstrated that the biphilic‐striped QLS shows a 60% higher water harvesting rate in atmospheric condensation and a 170% higher heat transfer coefficient in steam condensation than the conventional beetle‐inspired surface. This study provides a new paradigm to push the limit of condensation heat transfer at a high heat flux, which sheds light on the next‐generation surface design for water and energy sustainability.
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