Surfactant-free ionic liquid-based nanofluids with remarkable thermal conductivity enhancement at very low loading of graphene

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 7, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Wang, Fuxian ^a   Han, Lijuan ^a   Zhang, Zhengguo ^a   Fang, Xiaoming ^a   Shi, Jingjing ^a   Ma, Wenshi ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Graphene; Ionanofluid; MWCNTs; Specific heat; Thermal conductivity; Viscosity

Indexed keywords

GRAPHENE; HEAT STORAGE; HEAT TRANSFER; IONIC LIQUIDS; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); NANOFLUIDICS; SPECIFIC HEAT; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VISCOSITY;

IONANOFLUID; LOWER VISCOSITIES; MWCNTS; SURFACTANT-FREE; TEMPERATURE RISE; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY ENHANCEMENT; VARYING TEMPERATURE; WEIGHT FRACTIONS;

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY OF LIQUIDS;

EID: 84864018950     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-7-314     Document Type: Article

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