Ethylene glycol (EG)-based zinc oxide (ZnO) nanofluids containing no surfactant have been manufactured by one-step pulsed wire evaporation (PWE) method. Round-robin tests on thermal conductivity measurements of three samples of EG-based ZnO nanofluids have been conducted by five participating labs, four using accurate measurement apparatuses developed in house and one using a commercial device....

We present a method to measure the in-plane thermal conductivity of thin films by the laser flash technique. The method uses a well-defined structure for the analysis. We have realized the structure by conformal deposition of ZnO films of different thicknesses using atomic layer deposition onto a 20 μm thick ion track etched polycarbonate membrane as substrate. By using this procedure we could ...

Boundary-engineering in nanostructures has the potential to dramatically impact the development of materials for high- efficiency conversion of thermal energy directly into electricity. In particular, nanostructuring of semiconductors can lead to strong suppression of heat transport with little degradation of electrical conductivity. Although this combination of material properties is promising...

data envelopment analysis (dea) and balanced scorecard (bsc) are two well-known approaches for measuring performance of decision making units (dmus). bsc is especially applied with quality measures, whereas, when the quantity measures are used to evaluate, dea is more appropriate. in the real-world, dmus usually have complex structures such as network structures. one of the well-known network s...

with C−1 ≤ ρ ≤ C, C > 1. When n = 3 it describes the evolution of temperature u in a medium where the thermal conductivity is constant and the heat capacity is ρ. It also applies to diffusion in porous rocks, where ρ is the specific storage, if the hydraulic conductivity is constant. We consider the problem of the determination of ρ in Ω from boundary measurements. Consider the system:   ∆u(...

To enhance the performance of thermoelectric materials and enable access to their widespread applications, it is beneficial yet challenging to synthesize hollow nanostructures in large quantities, with high porosity, low thermal conductivity (κ) and excellent figure of merit (z T). Herein we report a scalable (ca. 11.0 g per batch) and low-temperature colloidal processing route for Bi2 Te2.5 Se...

Negative differential thermal resistance (NDTR) can be generated for any one-dimensional heat flow with a temperature-dependent thermal conductivity. In a system-independent scaling analysis, the general condition for the occurrence of NDTR is found to be an inequality with three scaling exponents: n1n2 < −(1 + n3), where n1 ∈ (−∞,+∞) describes a particular way of varying the temperature differ...

–Expressions are obtained for the thermal conductivity of some ABO3 type displacive ferroelectrics in paraelectric phase, using Kubo formalism and double time thermal Green’s function technique. The total thermal conductivity obtained for these perovskites which is sum of two terms contributed by optical and acoustical phonons, is in agreement with the experimental results of Steigmeier. The va...

Thermal death of cancerous cells may be induced by radiating single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) selectively attached via functionalization to the targeted cells. A distribution of SWNTs inside cancerous cells, on their surface, or in the inter-cellular fluid may occur during this treatment process. This work applies a random walk algorithm to calculate the effective thermal conductivity of ...