...W. Escher; T. Brunschwiler; N. Shalkevich; A. Shalkevich; T. Burgi; B. Michel; D. Poulikakos Nanofluids have been proposed to improve the performance of microchannel heat sinks. In this paper, we present a systematic characterization of aqueous silica nanoparticle suspensions with concentrations up...

...Anna S. Cherkasova; Jerry W. Shan The influence of particle anisotropy on the effective thermal conductivity of a suspension is experimentally investigated. Suspensions of micron-sized, silicon-carbide particles with varying aspect-ratio distributions were prepared and measured. It is shown...