{"id":237810,"date":"2026-05-27T03:24:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T08:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/surface-design-transforms-thermal-management-and-enables-frictionless-systems"},"modified":"2026-05-27T03:24:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T08:24:14","slug":"surface-design-transforms-thermal-management-and-enables-frictionless-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/surface-design-transforms-thermal-management-and-enables-frictionless-systems","title":{"rendered":"Surface design transforms thermal management and enables frictionless systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/surface-design-transforms-thermal-management-and-enables-frictionless-systems.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A research team led by Professor Steven Wang, Associate Vice President (Resources Planning) and Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and School of Energy and Environment, has designed a revolutionary capillary structure that can trigger the Leidenfrost effect, offering a practical solution for the temperature-regulated Leidenfrost effect without requiring complex surface engineering.<\/p>\n<p>The study, titled \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41567-026-03255-x\" target=\"_blank\">Capillary Leidenfrost Effect<\/a>\u201d, was recently published in the journal Nature Physics.<\/p>\n<p>The Leidenfrost effect is a physical phenomenon discovered in 1756. It occurs when a liquid droplet touches a surface much hotter than its boiling point, forming a vapor layer that makes it levitate and hover, slowing down evaporation. A simple example is water on a very hot pan: the drops sizzle and disappear quickly, but once it reaches the Leidenfrost point, they bead up, skate and dance around on a steam barrier, and last much longer before evaporating. This effect is ubiquitous in a wide range of laboratory and industrial applications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A research team led by Professor Steven Wang, Associate Vice President (Resources Planning) and Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and School of Energy and Environment, has designed a revolutionary capillary structure that can trigger the Leidenfrost effect, offering a practical solution for the temperature-regulated Leidenfrost effect without requiring complex surface engineering. The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237810","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=237810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}