heat pipe – TechConnect Briefs

Tunable Wetting of Titanium and Gold Based Wicking Materials

Ding C., university of california, santa barbara, US

We quantitatively report the experimental super-wetting results of wicking materials fabricated with bulk titanium micromachining, nano-scale surface modification and gold plating techniques. The results show all the four samples are completely wettable with water but [...]

Wicking Study of Nanostructured Titania Surfaces for Flat Heat Pipes

Ding C., Bogorzi P., Sigurdson M., Soni G., Meinhart C., MacDonald N.C., university of california, santa barbara, US

We report a wicking material based on nanostructured TiO2 (NST) for the application of flat heat pipes. This wicking material is formed by oxidizing Ti pillar structures in H2O2 solution. The NST surfaces shows nano-scale [...]