Laire Tech Limited exploits the ultimate liquid cooling technology – Structured Thermal Armor – providing a fundamental solution to the century-old Leidenfrost effect, a bottleneck problem in thermal cooling that had remained unsolved for 266 years. This innovation, published in the top journal Nature, enables efficient liquid cooling of extremely hot and ultra-high heat flux surfaces, making possible what was previously impossible (even over 1,000°C or 1,000 W/cm2, limited only by the melting point of materials). This technology has huge potential applications in high-end markets, such as thermonuclear fusion, aircraft and aerospace engines, nuclear reactors, integrated chips, electric vehicle batteries, rapid cryogenic freezing, solar focused thermal power generation, and thermal recovery and utilisation.
Dr Jiang Mengnan (Graduate, Dalian University of Technology)
Professor Wang Zuankai (Chair Professor, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
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- CityU HK Tech 300 Angel Fund (2023)
- CityU HK Tech 300 Seed Fund (2022)
- Gold Medal, International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva 2022
- Grand Prize and First Prize, The 8th Hong Kong University Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition 2022, Hong Kong New Generation Cultural Association
- Technology and Innovation – Class 2, The "Dali Cup" 9th "Creating Youth" Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Youth Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition 2022
- 2022 China Rising Stars in Science and Technology – Incredible Impactl Award