Influência de materiais nanoestruturados no transporte térmico em meio líquido

Abstract

This work was intended to study the influences of nanostructured materials in thermal transport in liquid medium and the applicability of these new materials as heat dissipation media. We studied aqueous nanofluids containing spherical nanoparticles of gold and silver, as well as Graphene nanosheets, carbon nanotubes, Fullerenes and Fullerene nanowires. For structural characterization of these nanofluids, extinction/ absorption UV-visible spectroscopy, atomic force microscopy (AFM) and Raman scattering spectroscopy have been used. Based on Mie scattering theory it was possible to estimate the distribution of sizes for metal nanoparticles. With AFM images were obtained particle sizes, mainly for the nanocarbon structures. The quality and type of nano carbon structure were defined with help of Raman spectroscopy. The heat transfer characteristics were obtained through thermal lens spectroscopy. We obtained thermal transport enhancement for metallic nanofluids. However, the same did not occur with nanocarbon nanofluids. Thus, the metallic nanofluids proved to be promising alternatives as cooling fluids.