Biologically inspired porous cooling membrane using arrayed-droplets evaporation

T. Kokalj; H. Cho; M. Jenko; L. P. Lee

doi:10.1063/1.3332398

Biologically inspired porous cooling membrane using arrayed-droplets evaporation

T. Kokalj, H. Cho, M. Jenko, L. P. Lee

Department of Chemistry & Nanoscience

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Inspired by human skin that dissipates heat via sweat-droplet evaporation on the skin, we propose an evaporative cooling technique via arrayed-droplets on a porous membrane, construct an analytical model of the evaporative cooling including interactions among the large number of droplets, and extensively analyze the cooling performance of 1000-droplet array. Our model shows that heat dissipation is enhanced by the membrane with dense droplets (i.e., enhancement factor of 10 at 5000 pores/ cm ² and pore radius of 35μm with respect to human skin). Additionally, the model predicts that the membrane dissipates heat more efficiently by operating at a higher temperature (i.e., additional enhancement factor of 17 at droplet temperature of 100°C).

Original language	English
Article number	163703
Journal	Applied Physics Letters
Volume	96
Issue number	16
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3332398
State	Published - 19 Apr 2010

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This work is supported by grant from Slovenian Research Agency (Project No. P2-0132) (T.K.). We are grateful to Martin Horvat, Gregor Kosec, Marko Žnidarič, Benjamin Ross, and Audrey Kimteng for expert assistance and discussions. Two of the authors T.K. and H.C. contributed equally to this work.

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