@article{faecd87beac94a7cade3fb876c2be7ff,
title = "Recent developments, challenges, and pathways to stable dropwise condensation: A perspective",
abstract = "Dropwise condensation (DWC) on non-wetting surfaces has remarkable potential to enhance heat transfer performance compared to filmwise condensation on wetting substrates. In this article, we discuss important recent developments and challenges in the field of DWC, including durability of DWC-promoting coatings, DWC of low surface tension fluids, physical mechanisms governing DWC, unconventional methods to achieve DWC, and promising metrology techniques for DWC. We end the article by providing a road map detailing where we believe the community should direct both fundamental and applied efforts in order to solve the identified century-old challenges that limit DWC implementation. ",
author = "Jingcheng Ma and Soumyadip Sett and Hyeongyun Cha and Xiao Yan and Nenad Miljkovic",
note = "Funding Information: This work was supported by the funding from the Office of Naval Research (Grant No. N00014-16-1-2625). We thank Professor David. G Cahill at the University of Illinois and Professor Daniel Orejon at the University of Edinburgh for providing critical review and feedback on the manuscript prior to submission. Funding Information: We thank Professor Elif Ertekin at the University of Illinois for insightful discussions regarding materials development with computational techniques. We also thank Mr. Ho Chan Chang for providing quantitative relationships between DWC coating thickness and heat transfer performance (Fig. 1). N.M. gratefully acknowledges funding support from the International Institute for Carbon Neutral Energy Research (No. WPI-I2CNER), sponsored by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2020 Author(s).",
year = "2020",
month = jun,
day = "29",
doi = "10.1063/5.0011642",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "116",
journal = "Applied Physics Letters",
issn = "0003-6951",
publisher = "American Institute of Physics Publising LLC",
number = "26",
}