The Blueprint: How researchers found a way to boil water faster
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- A team at MIT worked out how to enhance both heat transfer coefficient (HTC) and critical heat flux (CHF).
- They did this by adding a series of microscale cavities (dents) to a surface.
- It is essentially enhancing boiling using surface engineering.
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