Emerging Materials and Nanotechnology

Nano Fluidics

A nanofluid is a fluid containing nanometer-sized particles, called as nanoparticles. Nanofluids have novel properties that make them potentially useful in many applications like heat transfer including microelectronics, fuel cells, pharmaceutical processes, and hybrid-powered engines cooling/vehicle thermal management, domestic refrigerator, chiller, device , in grinding, machining and in boiler flue gas cooling . All electrified interfaces induce an organized charge distribution near the surface referred as the electrical double layer. Nanofluids even have special acoustical properties and in ultrasonic fields display additional shear-wave reconversion of an event compressional wave; the effect becomes more pronounced as concentration increases.