Year: 2023

2023 Fall End-of-Semester Dinner

First SNSF Project Funding Proposal Approved

Mr. Luca Magoni finished the EPFL E3 Program

First ETA-Lab Group Dinner

Insulated Cooling with Evaporation and Radiation (ICER)

Passive cooling relying on evaporation and radiation, while offering great energy-saving opportunities, faces challenges with low ambient cooling powers, environmental heating, high water usage, and climate condition constraints.

Traditionally Nonwetting Surface Made to Wet Mercury

We present a surface-engineering approach that turns all liquids highly wetting, including ultra-high surface tension fluids such as mercury.

Transport-based modeling of nucleation on electrodes

Fundamental understanding of the nucleation process, which is critical to system optimization, remains limited as prior works generally focused on the thermodynamics and have not considered the coupling between surface geometries and different forms of transport in the electrolytes.

Passive Subambient Cooling with Evaporation-Insulation Bilayer

A transparent bilayer made of hydrogels and aerogels for passive subambient cooling

Evaporation Kinetics Demonstrated Through Ultrathin Nanoporous Membranes

Elucidate kinetically limited evaporation where the molecular gas dynamics close to the liquid-vapor interface dominate the overall transport

Hierarchical high flux evaporative cooler

A new paradigm of phase change heat transfer enabled by a hierarchical evaporator, which favors high volatility, low surface tension liquids rather than water