Gallium–indium nanoparticles as phase change material additives for tunable thermal fluids
- 6 January 2021
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Nanoscale
- Vol. 13 (2) , 730-738
Abstract
Inorganic Ga–In alloy nanoparticles suspended in a traditional thermal transport fluid simultaneously increase the overall thermal diffusivity of the fluid and serve as a cyclable solid–liquid PCM slurry, providing a thermal sink definable over a wide temperature range.Keywords
Funding Information
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research (FA9550-16-1-0087)
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