Effect of aggregation and interfacial thermal resistance on thermal conductivity of nanocomposites and colloidal nanofluids

By W. Evans, Ravi S. Prasher, Jacob Fish, Paul Meakin, Patrick E. Phelan, Pawel Keblinski. 2008

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Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering

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Small particles, big impacts: A review of the diverse applications of nanofluids (2013, background): “significantly increased conductive [3–24][38-58] and convective [59-68] heat transfer properties.”
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A Review of Thermal Conductivity Data, Mechanisms and Models for Nanofluids (2010, background): “[128] analyzed and simulated the effect of the aggregation and interfacial thermal resistance on the effective thermal conductivity of nanofluids and nanocomposites.”
A Review on the Mechanisms of Heat Transport in Nanofluids (2009, background): “[42] have explained that there was no enhancement in nanofluid thermal conductivity when the particle radius becomes equal to the Kapitza radius (thickness of the matrix over which the temperature drop in a planar geometry is the same as at the interface).”
Synthesis, characterization, and thermal property measurement of nano-Al95Zn05 dispersed nanofluid prepared by a two-step process (2011, background): “high concentration of particle loading since a number of theories have been proposed explaining the enhancement in thermal conductivity due to clustering [38–41].”