a novel starch/poly (vinyl alcohol)/nano-titanium dioxide (st/pva/nano-tio2) biodegradable nanocomposite film was prepared by homogeneously dispersed tio2 nanoparticles in different ratios of starch/pva-based materials, via a solution casting method. glycerol was used as plasticizer. the mechanical and thermal properties of films were studied using tensile and perforation strength tests and the...

Introduction Heat dissipation is the most critical problem that limits the performance, power, reliability and further miniaturization of microelectronics. The thermal performance of these devices is greatly affected by the thermal resistance associated with interface between the heat sink and heat source. The improvement of a thermal contact is associated with a decrease of the thermal resista...

productivity of an oil well is an important parameter in any oil field development. low production rate of the wells, impose more production wells drilling which directly jeopardizes the economical feasibility of the project. oil production rate in some of the wells is very low due to low permeability of the reservoir rock. several practice like hydraulic fracturing and acid fracturing is very ...

Values for thermal enhancement and therapeutic gain are useful for deciding future directions of hyperthermia combined with other cancer therapy modalities. Evidence of thermal enhancement of effects on normal tissues is important as it indicates the need for dose modification. Specific values cannot be used generally to determine the degree of dose modification for clinical applications. A ran...

Title of Ph.D. Dissertation: THIN TWO-PHASE HEAT SPREADERS WITH BOILING ENHANCEMENT MICROSTRUCTURES FOR THERMAL MANAGEMENT OF ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS Sunil S Murthy, Doctor of Philosophy, 2004 Dissertation directed by: Professor Yogendra K. Joshi Department of Mechanical Engineering The current study goes over a design methodology for thin, two-phase heat spreaders for space constrained cooling appl...

We found that the optimized mixture of graphene and multilayer graphene, produced by the high-yield inexpensive liquid-phase-exfoliation technique, can lead to an extremely strong enhancement of the cross-plane thermal conductivity K of the composite. The "laser flash" measurements revealed a record-high enhancement of K by 2300% in the graphene-based polymer at the filler loading fraction f = ...

We present an analysis of the dispersion characteristics and thermal conductivity performance of copper-based nanofluids. The copper nanoparticles were prepared using a chemical reduction methodology in the presence of a stabilizing surfactant, oleic acid or cetyl trimethylammonium bromide (CTAB). Nanofluids were prepared using water as the base fluid with copper nanoparticle concentrations of ...

Bismuth telluride nanowires are of interest for thermoelectric applications because of the predicted enhancement in the thermoelectric figure-of-merit in nanowire structures. In this letter, we carried out temperature-dependent thermal diffusivity characterization of a 40 nm diameter Bi2Te3 nanowires/alumina nanocomposite. Measured thermal diffusivity of the composite decreases from 9.2310−7 m2...

In two-phase TiAl-based alloys, the coexisting 2 and phases exhibit a thermal expansion mismatch, so that increased creep rates during thermal cycling may be expected. Creep deformation of two g-TiAl-based alloys was investigated during thermal cycles between 900 and 300 or 350 C with applied tensile stresses of 32.5 or 37.0 MPa. Measured thermal cycling creep rates were compared with isotherma...