In this master's thesis, we have researched the use of hydrophobic and hydrophilic laser structured surfaces for enhanced boiling heat transfer. We fabricated different surface microstructures using a pulsed fiber laser combined with selective hydrophobization to pursue an additional decrease in wall superheat. All functionalized surfaces exhibited increased heat transfer intensity under pool boiling conditions through increased critical heat flux and higher heat transfer coefficients. Additionally, an earlier onset of nucleate boiling was observed, which was especially true for hydrophobic surfaces. We achieved heat transfer coefficients of up to 287 kW/m2K, which is a 9x improvement in comparison with an untreated reference surface. The highest measured critical heat flux was 1660 kW/m2, which represents an 83 % increase with respect to the treated surface. With developed surfaces, it is possible to substantially increase the intensity of heat transfer in applications, where heat loads are highly concentrated.
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