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Almost 450 nuclear power plants are currently operating throughout the world and supplying about 17% of the world’s electricity. These plants perform safely, reliably, and have no free-release of byproducts to the ...

Phase-change processes, such as pool and flow boiling, are generally very effective modes of heat transfer. However, the demands of modern thermal systems have required the development of methods to enhance boiling ...

Concerns about the security of oil supplies and the environmental consequences of burning fossil fuels have transformed the idea of a hydrogen (H2) economy from science fiction into a political bipartisan vision of our ...

The electronics industry is encountering thermal challenges and opportunities with lengthscales comparable to or much less than one micrometer. Examples include nanoscale phonon hotspots in transistors and the increasing ...

Hard and soft matter can be distinguished by the energy of chemical bonds in comparison with kBT. At the interface of hard and soft matter, there exists a region of transition between strong (covalent/ionic/metallic) ...

During the last half of the twentieth century, significant advances have been made in developing an understanding of phase change heat transfer (e.g., boiling and condensation). Further advances in phase change heat ...