{"id":212064,"date":"2025-04-22T02:17:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T07:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/hybrid-surface-combines-hydrophobic-nanowires-and-hydrophilic-channels-to-prevent-condensation-flooding"},"modified":"2025-04-22T02:17:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T07:17:11","slug":"hybrid-surface-combines-hydrophobic-nanowires-and-hydrophilic-channels-to-prevent-condensation-flooding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/hybrid-surface-combines-hydrophobic-nanowires-and-hydrophilic-channels-to-prevent-condensation-flooding","title":{"rendered":"Hybrid surface combines hydrophobic nanowires and hydrophilic channels to prevent condensation flooding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hybrid-surface-combines-hydrophobic-nanowires-and-hydrophilic-channels-to-prevent-condensation-flooding.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Condensation is critical for applications like power generation, water harvesting, and cooling systems. However, traditional surfaces suffer from a drop in performance under high subcooling, when the surface temperature is much lower than the surrounding vapor. This leads to water flooding and reduced heat transfer.<\/p>\n<p>To tackle this long-standing challenge, researchers at National Taiwan University and National Chung Hsing University have developed a novel three-dimensional (3D) hybrid surface that significantly enhances <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/condensation\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">condensation<\/a> performance and avoids flooding, even at high subcooling. The paper is <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/sstr.202400406\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in Small Structures.<\/p>\n<p>The new surface integrates short hydrophobic nanowires and hydrophilic microchannels in a structured pattern. This combination helps guide water droplets efficiently off the surface, preventing the accumulation of water that typically hampers heat transfer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Condensation is critical for applications like power generation, water harvesting, and cooling systems. However, traditional surfaces suffer from a drop in performance under high subcooling, when the surface temperature is much lower than the surrounding vapor. This leads to water flooding and reduced heat transfer. To tackle this long-standing challenge, researchers at National Taiwan University [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}