Evaporative cooling was performed to cool fermionic 173Yb atoms in a crossed optical dipole trap. The large elastic collision rate leads to efficient evaporation and we have successfully cooled the atoms to 0.37+/-0.06 of the Fermi temperature, that is to say, to a quantum degenerate regime. In this regime, a plunge of evaporation efficiency was observed as a result of Fermi degeneracy.

In this study, we presented a droplet-based microfluidic system for synthesizing three-dimensional (3D) graphene structure, called graphene popcorn. The droplets that were obtained by varying the flow rates and the concentration of graphene oxide (GO) solution were incubated in the furnace for rapid evaporation, resulting in the reduction of the GO as well as the aggregation of GO to form the g...

Techniques have been devised for studying quantitatively the effects of air ions on microorganisms suspended in small drops. In smog-contaminated atmospheres moderate concentrations of positive and negative air ions exerted a protective effect on staphylococci by delaying the drop in pH customarily observed and by diminishing the rate of evaporation. In clean air higher concentrations of positi...

Porous medium vacuum drying is a complicated heat and mass transfer process. Based on the theory of heat and mass transfer, a coupled model for the porous medium vacuum drying process is constructed. The model is implemented and solved using COMSOL software. The water evaporation rate is determined using a nonequilibrium method with the rate constant parameter Kr. Kr values of 1, 10, 1000, and ...

We investigate the kinetics of constant-kernel aggregation which is augmented by ~a! evaporation of monomers from clusters, which is termed aggregation in a ‘‘dry’’ environment, and ~b! continuous cluster growth or condensation, termed aggregation in a ‘‘damp’’ environment. The rate equations for these two processes are analyzed using both exact and asymptotic methods. In dry aggregation, mass ...

In a series of experiments, a temperature discontinuity has been found to exist at the surface of an evaporating water droplet. Statistical rate theory has been used to predict the pressure in the vapor to within the experimental uncertainty during each of the experiments. While the qualitative trend of the D law is observed to be consistent with the measurements, it underpredicts the measured ...

this study aimed at determining the evapotranspiration and crop coefficient (kc) of sugar beet during the plant growth using drainage lysimeter by using water balance and experimental methods for three years in shahrekord. after sugar beet planting and out of lysimeter, evapotranspiration was measured weekly and monthly by measuring the factors of the water- balance equation. results showed tha...

The feasibility of fabricating Janus particles based on phase separation between a hard fat and a biocompatible polymer was investigated. The solvent evaporation method used involved preparing an oil-in-water (o/w) emulsion with a mixture of poly (lactic-co-glycolic) acid (PLGA), hard fat, and an organic solvent as the oil phase and a polyvinyl alcohol aqueous solution as the water phase. The J...

Experimental results are summarized on investigations of positive temperature jumps at water–vapor interfaces during steady-state evaporation under low-pressure. Steady-state evaporation of water experiments were carried out to measure the interfacial properties and to obtain the evaporation rate. The interfacial vapor temperature close to the interface was always found to be higher than the in...

Aqueous evaporation and condensation kinetics are poorly understood, and uncertainties in their rates affect predictions of cloud behavior and therefore climate. We measured the cooling rate of 3 M ammonium sulfate droplets undergoing free evaporation via Raman thermometry. Analysis of the measurements yields a value of 0.58 +/- 0.05 for the evaporation coefficient, identical to that previously...