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Advancements in surface engineering have enabled significant enhancement of boiling heat transfer. However, performance gains rarely transfer across conditions or geometries. Two challenges illustrate why: bubble nucleation behavior is poorly reproducible; and increasing nucleating density to raise the heat transfer coefficient typically lowers the system’s maximum achievable heat flux. This talk presents our efforts in addressing each challenge by identifying the governing mechanism and designing for it.<br>\r\nIn the first part, micro-engineered silicon surfaces isolate two governing length scales: the hydrodynamic boundary layer thickness, which controls nucleation stability through inter-site shielding, and the bubble departure diameter, which governs vapor removal after full activation. We experimentally show that nucleation stability responds to the former length scale (~0.24 mm); heat transfer in the activated regime responds to the latter length scale (~2.5 mm).<br>\r\nThe second study addresses the high-heat-flux limit, where large vapor structures block liquid return. Capillary wicking through copper inverse opals (~10 μm pores) supplies liquid beneath the vapor. Crucially, the pore cavities are themselves the nucleation sites, so wicking capacity and nucleation density derive from the same structure. Further, CuO nanograss on the pore walls suppresses vapor penetration into the porous layer, enabling thicker structures and greater capillary head. The result is simultaneous enhancement of heat transfer coefficients and maximum heat fluxes.<br>\r\nTogether, the two works show that mechanism-targeted surface design yields gains that empirical topography optimization does not. They point toward a broader design principle: that nucleation and interfacial transport, treated as controllable rather than given, offer a promising path to engineering phase change processes across applications.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<a href=\"https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsami.9b20520?ref=pdf\">https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsami.9b20520?ref=pdf</a><br>\r\n<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10209-w\">https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10209-w </a><br>\r\n<br>\r\nBio: Zhengmao Lu is a Tenure Track Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at EPFL. Prior to joining EPFL, Zhengmao was a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT with Prof. Jeffrey Grossman. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from MIT, both advised by Prof. Evelyn Wang. 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There is increasing evidence that the unique water structure and hydrogen bonding environment within the first nanometer of the surface may be largely responsible for driving those interactions. That microscopic region is also influenced by electrostatic interactions, even though the origin of the surface charge is not always clear. A further complication is that the water structure may be substantially different in the Stern and diffuse regions of the electrical double layer, thereby requiring nanoscale probes. While recent advances in plasmonics-based methods (such SERS, SHINERS or SEIRAS) have pushed the capabilities for detection of nano-structured water at metal surfaces, there are comparatively fewer methods suitable for the investigation of dielectric materials. This presentation will illustrate how our recently-developed angle-scanning nonlinear optical spectroscopy has the ability to offer a unique probe of interfacial water structure.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<u>Bio:</u><br>\r\nDennis Hore is a Professor in the Departments of Chemistry and Computer Science at the University of Victoria, Canada. He has two research groups: one develops nonlinear optical techniques for studying molecular structure at solid-liquid interfaces - <a contenteditable=\"false\" href=\"https://web.uvic.ca/~dkhore/\" title=\"https://web.uvic.ca/~dkhore/\">https://web.uvic.ca/~dkhore/</a>. 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