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Honeycomb core inspired design and numerical simulation of heat transfer enhancement for thermal energy storage in heat exchangers (2025)
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Han, L., Zhang, S., & Yan, Y. (2026). Honeycomb core inspired design and numerical simulation of heat transfer enhancement for thermal energy storage in heat exchangers. International Journal of Thermal Sciences, 219, Article 110205. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijthermalsci.2025.110205

Latent heat storage offers a promising solution to bridge energy supply-demand mismatches, yet its implementation is fundamentally constrained by the low thermal conductivity of phase change materials (PCM). To address this limitation, this study inv... Read More about Honeycomb core inspired design and numerical simulation of heat transfer enhancement for thermal energy storage in heat exchangers.

Enhanced heat transfer of PCM-based heat sink augmented with plate-fins and hybrid nanoparticles for electronics cooling (2025)
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Arshad, A., Jabbal, M., & Yan, Y. (2025). Enhanced heat transfer of PCM-based heat sink augmented with plate-fins and hybrid nanoparticles for electronics cooling. International Journal of Thermal Sciences, 218, Article 110107. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijthermalsci.2025.110107

Passive cooling technologies based on phase change material (PCM) reveal as emerging technique for thermal management of electronic components effciently. Therefore, the current study explores the combined effect of hybrid nanoparticles (HNPs), plate... Read More about Enhanced heat transfer of PCM-based heat sink augmented with plate-fins and hybrid nanoparticles for electronics cooling.

Investigation of thermal management performance of electronic devices with phase change materials and pin fin heat sinks under periodic heating and cooling cycles (2025)
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Wang, H., Wang, H., Wang, J., Luo, D., Yan, Y., & Ren, Y. (2025). Investigation of thermal management performance of electronic devices with phase change materials and pin fin heat sinks under periodic heating and cooling cycles. Energy Conversion and Management, 342, Article 120107. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enconman.2025.120107

Effective thermal management is critical for high-power devices such as metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistors, as excessive heat can degrade their performance and reliability. Existing studies often simplify the heat source as a region o... Read More about Investigation of thermal management performance of electronic devices with phase change materials and pin fin heat sinks under periodic heating and cooling cycles.

Effect of Photoresist Biomimetic Surface Roughness on Droplet Evaporation Dynamics (2025)
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Zhang, Z., Gao, X., & Yan, Y. (2025). Effect of Photoresist Biomimetic Surface Roughness on Droplet Evaporation Dynamics. Journal of Bionic Engineering, https://doi.org/10.1007/s42235-025-00698-5

Control of the wetting properties of biomimetic functional surfaces is a desired functionality in many applications. In this paper, the photoresist SU-8 was used as fabrication material. A silicon wafer was used as a substrate to prepare a biomimetic... Read More about Effect of Photoresist Biomimetic Surface Roughness on Droplet Evaporation Dynamics.

A dual-layer modelling method for characterizing and optimizing the energy flexibility of building heating systems (2025)
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Dou, Y., Xu, B., Jiang, P., Wang, X., Zheng, X., Yan, Y., & Du, X. (2025). A dual-layer modelling method for characterizing and optimizing the energy flexibility of building heating systems. Applied Thermal Engineering, 271, Article 126312. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2025.126312

Utilizing passive thermal storage with electric heat pumps enables cost-effective building energy flexibility enhancement. Current reduced-order modeling approaches for control simulations introduce significant simulation-reality discrepancies, while... Read More about A dual-layer modelling method for characterizing and optimizing the energy flexibility of building heating systems.

The Effect of Honeycomb-Structured Hydrophilic–Hydrophobic Mixed Surfaces on the Spreading Process of Liquid Droplets (2025)
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Zhu, C., Alston, M., & Yan, Y. (2025). The Effect of Honeycomb-Structured Hydrophilic–Hydrophobic Mixed Surfaces on the Spreading Process of Liquid Droplets. Biomimetics, 10(4), Article 209. https://doi.org/10.3390/biomimetics10040209

Honeycomb-structured, mixed-wettability surfaces have attracted significant attention due to their potential for tailoring surface properties and controlling fluid dynamics at the nanoscale. However, the underlying mechanisms governing droplet spread... Read More about The Effect of Honeycomb-Structured Hydrophilic–Hydrophobic Mixed Surfaces on the Spreading Process of Liquid Droplets.

Efficient CO2/CH4 Separation Using Polysulfone/NH2-MIL-125(Ti) Mixed Matrix Membranes (2025)
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Alsaady, M., Waqas, S., Zeeshan, M. H., Almarshoud, M. A., Maqsood, K., Abdulrahman, A., & Yan, Y. (2025). Efficient CO2/CH4 Separation Using Polysulfone/NH2-MIL-125(Ti) Mixed Matrix Membranes. ACS Omega, 10(12), 11972-11979. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.4c09251

This study investigates the fabrication and optimization of mixed matrix membranes (MMMs) composed of NH2-MIL-125(Ti), a metal–organic framework (MOF), dispersed within a polysulfone (PSf) polymer matrix, for efficient CO2/CH4 separation. The MMMs we... Read More about Efficient CO2/CH4 Separation Using Polysulfone/NH2-MIL-125(Ti) Mixed Matrix Membranes.

Prompting droplet breakup by imposing an electric field (2025)
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Chen, N., Gan, Y., & Yan, Y. (2025). Prompting droplet breakup by imposing an electric field. Physics of Fluids, 37(1), Article 013380. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0251845

Various means for manipulating droplets based on pressure, magnetic, optical, or other external fields have emerged. Despite the remarkable progress, the existing modalities of droplet formation control and manipulation still deserve further investig... Read More about Prompting droplet breakup by imposing an electric field.

An extensive analysis of the utilisation of phase change materials in food storage process (2025)
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Han, L., Zhang, S., Wright, E., Zheng, X., & Yan, Y. (2025). An extensive analysis of the utilisation of phase change materials in food storage process. Journal of Energy Storage, 111, Article 115391. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.est.2025.115391

With improving living standards, the demand for high-quality food is escalating. Conventional food storage methods often entail issues such as limitations in sustaining food quality and related energy wastage. The utilisation of PCMs in the food stor... Read More about An extensive analysis of the utilisation of phase change materials in food storage process.

Performance improvement of an automotive thermoelectric generator by introducing a novel split fin structure (2025)
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Luo, D., Yang, S., Zhang, H., Cao, J., Yan, Y., & Chen, H. (2025). Performance improvement of an automotive thermoelectric generator by introducing a novel split fin structure. Applied Energy, 382, Article 125218. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2024.125218

In this research, a novel split fin structure is proposed to enhance the performance of automotive thermoelectric generators (ATEGs). The traditional plate fin is segmented into two identical secondary fins from the middle, improving the thermal cont... Read More about Performance improvement of an automotive thermoelectric generator by introducing a novel split fin structure.