...Qing Hui Pan; Xiang Chen; Sheng Duo Xu; Yong Shuai; He Ping Tan An annulus-shaped nanostructure having a three-layer structure consisting of an annulus aluminum pattern, Al 2 O 3 spacer layer, and Al substrate is presented. High absorption peaks can be easily obtained between 2.5 μ m and 12.5 μ m...

... transport equations, valid in liquid, solid, and mushy regions, are as follows [ 10 , 32 ]: colloids constitutional supercooling convection freezing nanoparticles nanostructures phase change solidification suspensions thermal conductivity Fig. 8 Variation of the concentration...

...Liwu Fan; J. M. Khodadadi Highly-conductive nanostructures may be dispersed into phase change materials (PCM) to improve their effective thermal conductivity, thus leading to colloidal systems that are referred to as nanostructure-enhanced PCM (NePCM). Results of a theoretical and experimental...

...P. Chantrenne; C. Ould-Lahoucine The kinetic theory of gas is used to predict the specific heat and thermal conductivity of ZnO nanostructures. In this model, phonons are considered as a gas whose basic properties are given by phonon dispersion curves. The model also requires knowledge...

... conditions. This system study shows that cooler performance may drop significantly when miniaturized, particularly if the cooling elements are realized at the scale of many recently proposed thermoelectric thin films and nanostructured materials. The system theory illustrates that performance is governed...