One-Pot Shear Synthesis of Gallium, Indium, and Indium-Bismuth Nanofluids: An Experimental and Computational Study Paper No. NANO-14-1039: An experimental and computational study

Anne K. Starace; Joongoo Kang; Junyi Zhu; Judith C. Gomez; Greg C. Glatzmaier

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One-Pot Shear Synthesis of Gallium, Indium, and Indium-Bismuth Nanofluids: An Experimental and Computational Study Paper No. NANO-14-1039: An experimental and computational study

Anne K. Starace, Joongoo Kang, Junyi Zhu, Judith C. Gomez, Greg C. Glatzmaier

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Nanofluids are often proposed as advanced heat transfer fluids. In this work, using a one-step nanoemulsification method, we synthesize gallium, indium, and indium-bismuth nanofluids in poly-alpha-olefin (PAO). The size distributions of the resulting nanoparticles are analyzed using transmission electron microscopy (TEM). X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis of the alloy nanoparticles indicates that their composition is the same as that of the bulk alloy. It was found that oleylamine stabilizes both gallium and indium particles in PAO, while oleic acid is effective for gallium particles only. The microscopic adsorption mechanism of surfactants on gallium and indium surfaces is investigated using density functional theory (DFT) to understand why oleylamine is effective for both metals while oleic acid is effective for gallium only.

Original language	American English
Article number	041008
Number of pages	6
Journal	Journal of Nanotechnology in Engineering and Medicine
Volume	4
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4027854
State	Published - 2014

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One-Pot Shear Synthesis of Gallium, Indium, and Indium-Bismuth Nanofluids: An Experimental and Computational Study Paper No. NANO-14-1039: An experimental and computational study. / Starace, Anne K.; Kang, Joongoo; Zhu, Junyi et al.
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