Category: High Performance Cooling
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.
Passive Subambient Cooling with Evaporation-Insulation Bilayer
The state-of-the-art evaporative cooling technologies are largely limited by environmental heating. Here, inspired by the fur layer of desert animals, we address this critical challenge with a transparent bilayer made of hydrogels and aerogels.
Hierarchical High Flux Evaporative Cooling
A wide range of industrial systems requires using low surface tension liquids where heat transfer enhancement has proved challenging for boiling and evaporation. Here, we enable a new paradigm of phase change heat transfer, which favors high volatility, low surface tension liquids rather than water.