Mechanistic investigations of viscosity and thermal conductivity enhancement in multi-walled carbon nanotubes-propylene glycol nanofluids

Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1125-1129

  Mary, A Helen ^a   Suganthi, K S ^a   Rajan, K S ^a  

^a SASTRA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Acid treatment; Aspect ratio; Mwcnt propylene glycol; Particle clustering; Thermal conductivity; Viscosity

Indexed keywords

ACID TREATMENTS; COLLOIDAL STABILITY; HIGH ASPECT RATIO; HYDROPHILIC GROUPS; PARTICLE CLUSTERING; PROPYLENE GLYCOLS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY ENHANCEMENT; VOLUME CONCENTRATION;

ASPECT RATIO; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); NANOFLUIDICS; POLYOLS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; VISCOSITY;

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY OF LIQUIDS;

EID: 84890481646     PISSN: 19414900     EISSN: 19414919     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1166/nnl.2013.1673     Document Type: Article

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