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The bi-conductive surfaces have a periodic arrangement of low-conductivity material embedded within a high-conductivity substrate. The thermal conductivity of the epoxy (<1 W/mK) is several orders of magnitude less than that of copper (~400 W/mK). When submerged in a fluid and heated from the underside, this creates an in-plane variation in surface temperature. Due to the extreme conductivity difference, there is negligible heat conducted through the epoxy divisions during nucleate boiling (see thermal circuit analysis in the Supplementary Material). As such, the wall superheat temperature above the epoxy divisions will be notably reduced as compared to that experienced over the copper sections. At low average wall superheats, prior to bubble nucleation, these in-plane temperature variations will drive natural convection flows aligned with the epoxy divisions similar to Rayleigh-Bérnard convection rolls. It has been shown that this sort of flow instability is immediately triggered for any finite superheating with a spatially varying surface temperature27. The resulting flow-field draws cooler liquid down toward the surface from above the epoxy divisions, while warmer fluid rises from above the hot copper. At these early stages the counter-rotating flows will produce a stagnation point in the center of the copper, resulting in a local minimum in convective heat transfer coefficient and therefore a local maximum in surface temperature28. As the wall superheat is increased this local maximum temperature promotes bubble nucleation along the center of the copper regions. This results in the formation of an ordered flow-field, as shown schematically in Fig. 1e, which persists at increasing thermal loadings. The in-plane variations in wall superheat take a periodic form with a wavelength equal to the pitch between epoxy divisions, P. This superheat wavelength dictates the nature and location of the ordered pathways of escaping vapor and replenishing liquid returning to the surface during nucleate boiling. Figure 1f shows an image of the onset of nucleate boiling, where the first few nucleation sites are activated on a bi-conductive surface (N = 4 cm−1) at a wall superheat of ~5 K. As can be seen, the vapor bubbles preferentially nucleate near the center of the copper due to the local maximum in surface temperature. This is consistently seen for all of the surfaces tested, and demonstrates that the wettability of the epoxy is not promoting nucleation due to a lower surface energy (see supplemental movies). Additionally, Fig. 1g shows how the superheat wavelength, P, imparts a level of control over the bubble diameter during lateral coalescence. By ordering nucleation sites and liquid return pathways, the size of bubbles undergoing lateral coalescence across an epoxy division is tuned to nominally coincide with the superheat wavelength, P.

where Cpl is the heat capacity of the liquid and hfg is the latent heat of vaporization29. Evaluating equations (6) and (7) for saturated water on copper results in values of  = 1.04 ± 0.1 and  = 0.98 ± 0.1, respectively, considering the uncertainties in contact angle and material properties. The bubble departure diameters predicted by both models closely match the optimal pitch between epoxy divisions found experimentally to be  ≈ 1.

It was a daunting process, but one that Meyers took in stride. Those panic moments—and their sigh-of-relief resolutions—have now become lore, embedded into the brick and concrete and exposed beams of the tap house.

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