Compliant Polymeric Sheet-Based Heat Exchangers.

Richard J Fontenot, Loic Duggal, Sofia Urbina, Barclay Jumet, Anoop Rajappan, Daniel J Preston

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Article in Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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6 authors.

Richard J FontenotDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Rice University, Houston, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1430-5342

Loic DuggalDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Rice University, Houston, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0002-8870-2148

Sofia UrbinaDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Rice University, Houston, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0005-5235-9191

Barclay JumetDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Rice University, Houston, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1422-5166

Anoop RajappanDepartment of Physics and Engineering Physics, Tulane University, New Orleans, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6843-509X

Daniel J PrestonDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Rice University, Houston, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0096-0285

Funding

Department of Energy DE-EE0011230DoD SMART ScholarshipNational Science Foundation 1828869National Science Foundation 1842494National Science Foundation 2236422

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Heat exchangers provide essential thermal management, spanning from the food industry to chemical processing and beyond; however, they are often made from metals with correspondingly high material and manufacturing costs, along with susceptibility to fouling and corrosion. To address these limitations, researchers have worked to achieve similar performance with heat exchangers made from polymers, but early designs remain expensive, geometrically complex, and limited by low thermal conductivities and operational temperatures. Additionally, previous studies are primarily empirical in nature and lack a sufficient link to theory to enable future design. In this work, we create and characterize heat exchangers made of thin (∼50 µm), transparent polymeric sheets that exhibit heat transfer coefficients up to 2000 W/m

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compliantdeployablesheet laminationsoft materialsthermal management

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PMID41722067

DOI10.1002/advs.202520009

PMCPMC13045345

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