ArticleNature communications2026
Reverse Tesla valve modulated efficient water evaporation and cooling.
Wensheng Wang, Shouwei Gao, Han Wu, Pengyu Chen, Dongnan Xu, Haoyan Xu, Mingxing Jing, Qi Sun, Shaocong Chang, Zhuangzhi Sun and 2 more
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Wensheng Wang *Province Key Laboratory of Forestry Intelligent Equipment Engineering, College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, People's Republic of China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0000-0632-2105 Shouwei Gao *Department of Mechanical Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, SAR, People's Republic of China.
Han Wu *Province Key Laboratory of Forestry Intelligent Equipment Engineering, College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, People's Republic of China.
Pengyu Chen *Province Key Laboratory of Forestry Intelligent Equipment Engineering, College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, People's Republic of China.
Dongnan XuProvince Key Laboratory of Forestry Intelligent Equipment Engineering, College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, People's Republic of China.
Haoyan XuProvince Key Laboratory of Forestry Intelligent Equipment Engineering, College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, People's Republic of China.
Mingxing JingProvince Key Laboratory of Forestry Intelligent Equipment Engineering, College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, People's Republic of China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5582-7118 Qi SunProvince Key Laboratory of Forestry Intelligent Equipment Engineering, College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, People's Republic of China.
Shaocong ChangProvince Key Laboratory of Forestry Intelligent Equipment Engineering, College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, People's Republic of China.
Zhuangzhi SunProvince Key Laboratory of Forestry Intelligent Equipment Engineering, College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, People's Republic of China. sunzhuangzhi@nefu.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0028-2426 Haipeng YuKey Laboratory of Biobased Material Science & Technology, Ministry of Education, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, People's Republic of China. yuhaipeng20000@nefu.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0634-7913 Funding
National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 52175266 & 52575327
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Water evaporation, a physical process effectively driving natural hydrological cycles, has long suffered from rate limitations in industrial applications. Particularly in scenarios such as solar steam generation and evaporation cooling, the evaporation rate of conventional evaporators struggles to meet the practical request, due to the unresolved boundary layer resistance at the liquid-air interface. Here, we reinvent Nikola Tesla's fluidic diode into a reverse Tesla valve modulated bulk-effect evaporation system (BEES). By leveraging structure-induced vortex airflow to disrupt thermal and mass transfer boundary layers, BEES unlocks previously unattainable evaporation dynamics at the inner liquid-air interface and achieves an evaporation rate of 21.29 kg m
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