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Enhancement of capillary condensation in extended nanospace for high-performance micro heat pipe device
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Enhancement of capillary condensation in extended nanospace for high-performance micro heat pipe device

Kentaro Kasai, Chenxi Wang, Hisashi Shimizu, Yutaka Kazoe, Kazuma Mawatari and Takehiko Kitamori
17th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences, MicroTAS 2013, Vol.3, pp.1577-1579
2013

Abstract

Capillary force Condensation Evaporation Nanofluidics Nanopillar Bioengineering
We developed a facile measurement method of capillary condensation speed of water on nanopillars. The results show a significant enhancement of the condensation speed in nanospace compared to the bulk space. This phenomenon is utilized to achieve a novel "extended-nano heat pipe device", in which a non-electric cooling is expected to be realized. Our findings demonstrate a significantly high speed condensation (3 times) in nanospace for the first time and this specific property is adopted for realizing high-performance cooling devices.

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