Functional Fibers, Composites and Textiles Utilizing Photothermal and Joule Heating

Nanomaterials for Functional Textiles and Fibers

Nanoparticles are very interesting because of their surface properties, different from bulk materials. Such properties make possible to endow ordinary products with new functionalities. Their relatively low cost with respect to other nano-additives make them a promising choice for industrial mass-production systems. Nanoparticles of different kind of materials such as silver, titania, and zinc ...

Submicron surface - patterned fibers and textiles

Prof. Y. Fink (corresponding author) Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA Institute of Soldier Nanotechnology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 0...

Joule heating in single-walled carbon nanotubes

Joule heating in single-walled carbon nanotubes CNTs using a quantum mechanical approach is presented in this paper. The modeling is based on the energy transfer between the electrons and both acoustic and optical phonons. In this formulation, only the knowledge of the full energy dispersion relation, phonon dispersion relation, and the electron-phonon coupling potential is required for the cal...

Joule Heating Effects on Insulator-based Dielectrophoresis

ABSTRACT We present an experimental and numerical study of Joule heating in a polymeric insulator-based dielectrophoresis (iDEP) device. In this study, we used a microscale thermometry technique based upon the temperature-sensitive fluorescence of Rhodamine B dye to monitor the fluid temperature within our iDEP microfluidic devices. We then complemented our experiments with 3D finite element si...

Picosecond Joule heating in photoconductive switch electrodes