Potential of carbon nanohorn-based suspensions for solar thermal collectors

By E. Sani, L. Mercatelli, S. Barison, C. Pagura, F. Agresti, L. Colla, P. Sansoni. 2011

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Experimental investigation on photothermal properties of nanofluids for direct absorption solar thermal energy systems (2013, background): “[21,22] have investigated the optical and thermal properties of Single Wall Carbon Nanohorns (SWCNHs) in view of their use as direct sunlight absorbers in solar thermal devices.”
Experimental investigation of a silver nanoparticle-based direct absorption solar thermal system (2014, background): “, typically of a few milliliters [16,17,11,6].”
Energy, economic and environmental analysis of metal oxides nanofluid for flat-plate solar collector (2013, background): “Researches on thermal efficiency by applying nanofluids on flat-plate solar collector have been made in the past few years by numerous researchers [43–52].”
Small particles, big impacts: A review of the diverse applications of nanofluids (2013, background): “[273] Carbon Nanohorns E.”
Photothermal conversion characteristics of gold nanoparticle dispersions (2014, background): “However as briefly reviewed in the Introduction, a lot of the studies were based on the optical properties and characterized by the extinction coefficient only ([2,3,4,8,9]), which makes impossible to compare the photothermal conversion efficiency.”
Review of heat transfer in nanofluids: Conductive, convective and radiative experimental results (2015, background): “[93] 2–5 nm 30–50 nm Glycol Rayleigh scattering Very low scattering component (5%).”