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Title: Controlling condensation and frost growth with chemical micropatterns

Abstract

Frost growth on chilled hydrophobic surfaces is an inter-droplet phenomenon, where frozen droplets harvest water from supercooled liquid droplets to grow ice bridges that propagate across the surface in a chain reaction. To date, no surface has been able to passively prevent the in-plane growth of frost across the population of supercooled condensate. Here, we demonstrate that when the nucleation sites for supercooled condensate are properly controlled with chemical micropatterns, the speed of frost growth can be slowed and even halted entirely. This stoppage of frost growth is attributed to the large interdroplet separation between condensate upon the onset of freezing, which was controlled by the pitch of the chemical patterns and by deliberately triggering an early freezing event. Lastly, these findings reveal that frost growth can be passively suppressed by designing surfaces to spatially control nucleation sites and/or temporally control the onset of freezing events.

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [3];  [3];  [4];  [4]
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State Univ. (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg, VA (United States); Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
  2. Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States); Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS (United States); Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
  3. Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State Univ. (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg, VA (United States)
  4. Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States); Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
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USDOE Office of Science (SC)
OSTI Identifier:
1240546
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC05-00OR22725
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Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Scientific Reports
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 6; Journal ID: ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher:
Nature Publishing Group
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; 37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; applied physics; engineering; fluid dynamics; materials science

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Boreyko, Jonathan B., Hansen, Ryan R., Murphy, Kevin R., Nath, Saurabh, Retterer, Scott T., and Collier, C. Patrick. Controlling condensation and frost growth with chemical micropatterns. United States: N. p., 2016. Web. doi:10.1038/srep19131.
Boreyko, Jonathan B., Hansen, Ryan R., Murphy, Kevin R., Nath, Saurabh, Retterer, Scott T., & Collier, C. Patrick. Controlling condensation and frost growth with chemical micropatterns. United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep19131
Boreyko, Jonathan B., Hansen, Ryan R., Murphy, Kevin R., Nath, Saurabh, Retterer, Scott T., and Collier, C. Patrick. Fri . "Controlling condensation and frost growth with chemical micropatterns". United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep19131. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1240546.
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abstractNote = {Frost growth on chilled hydrophobic surfaces is an inter-droplet phenomenon, where frozen droplets harvest water from supercooled liquid droplets to grow ice bridges that propagate across the surface in a chain reaction. To date, no surface has been able to passively prevent the in-plane growth of frost across the population of supercooled condensate. Here, we demonstrate that when the nucleation sites for supercooled condensate are properly controlled with chemical micropatterns, the speed of frost growth can be slowed and even halted entirely. This stoppage of frost growth is attributed to the large interdroplet separation between condensate upon the onset of freezing, which was controlled by the pitch of the chemical patterns and by deliberately triggering an early freezing event. Lastly, these findings reveal that frost growth can be passively suppressed by designing surfaces to spatially control nucleation sites and/or temporally control the onset of freezing events.},
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year = {Fri Jan 22 00:00:00 EST 2016},
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A Review of Condensation Frosting
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  • Nath, Saurabh; Ahmadi, S. Farzad; Boreyko, Jonathan B.
  • Nanoscale and Microscale Thermophysical Engineering, Vol. 21, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.1080/15567265.2016.1256007

Droplet Growth Dynamics during Atmospheric Condensation on Nanopillar Surfaces
journal, July 2018

  • Haque, Mohammad Rejaul; Qu, Chuang; Kinzel, Edward C.
  • Nanoscale and Microscale Thermophysical Engineering, Vol. 22, Issue 4
  • DOI: 10.1080/15567265.2018.1495282

Facile fabrication of superhydrophobic aluminum surfaces by chemical etching and its anti-icing/self-cleaning performances
journal, July 2019


Suppressing Ice Nucleation of Supercooled Condensate with Biphilic Topography
journal, February 2018


Fast dynamics of water droplets freezing from the outside-in
text, January 2017


Recent advances on open fluidic systems for biomedical applications: A review
journal, April 2019

  • Oliveira, Nuno M.; Vilabril, Sara; Oliveira, Mariana B.
  • Materials Science and Engineering: C, Vol. 97
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.msec.2018.12.040

An ultrahigh-accuracy Miniature Dew Point Sensor based on an Integrated Photonics Platform
journal, July 2016

  • Tao, Jifang; Luo, Yu; Wang, Li
  • Scientific Reports, Vol. 6, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1038/srep29672

Large scale generation of micro-droplet array by vapor condensation on mesh screen piece
journal, January 2017

  • Xie, Jian; Xu, Jinliang; He, Xiaotian
  • Scientific Reports, Vol. 7, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1038/srep39932