Controlling dropwise condensation is fundamental to water-harvesting systems, desalination, thermal power generation, air conditioning, distillation towers, and numerous other applications. For any of these, it is essential to design surfaces that enable droplets to grow rapidly and to be shed as quickly as possible. However, approaches based on microscale, nanoscale or molecular-scale textures suffer from intrinsic trade-offs that make it difficult to optimize both...
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Condensation on slippery asymmetric bumps
Controlling dropwise condensation is fundamental to water-harvesting systems, desalination, thermal power generation, air conditioning, distillation towers, and numerous other applications. For any of these, it is essential to design surfaces that enable droplets to grow rapidly and to be shed as quickly as possible. However, approaches based on microscale, nanoscale or molecular-scale textures suffer from intrinsic trade-offs that make it difficult to optimize both...
GeekWire Deals: Get a grip on your slippery gadgets with this simple stick-on solution
The aluminum-focused design of modern gadgets looks great on the table or a 5-story billboard, but holding something that slippery in your hand can be a precarious situation. And that problem is only multiplied as devices get thinner and lighter, making them feel better in our pockets...