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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Nanoscale heat transfer"”.
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Control of oligonucleotide conformation on nanoparticle surfaces for nanoscale heat transfer study
… activity of the molecules due to induction heating from the particles that changes the temperature around the molecules. Here an experimental scheme towards direct temperature probing is proposed to predict the behavior of the antenna. Oligonucleotides modified with photosensitive molecules …
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Multidisciplinary research in Raman spectroscopy, phase imaging and their applications in heat transfer
Recent advances in micro-to-nanoscale heat transfer have led to tremendous research interests in the high spatial resolution thermal characterization techniques. Although great improvement has been made in temperature probe, heat flux measurement and thermophysical properties characterization …
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Molecular Simulation Of Nanoscale Transport Phenomena
Interest in nanoscale heat and mass transport has been augmented through current trends in nanotechnology research. The theme of this dissertation is to characterize electric charge, mass and thermal transport at the nanoscale using a fundamental molecular simulation method, namely molecular …
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Exploring heat transfer at the atomistic level for thermal energy conversion and management
Heat transfer at the scales of atoms plays an important role in many applications such as thermoelectric energy conversion and thermal management of microelectronic devices. While nanoengineering offers unique opportunities to manipulate heat to our advantages, it also imposes challenges on the …
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Exploring electron and phonon transport at the nanoscale for thermoelectric energy conversion
… materials are capable of solid-state direct heat to electricity energy conversion and are ideal for waste heat recovery applications due to their simplicity, reliability, and lack of environmentally harmful working fluids. Recently, nanostructured thermoelectrics have demonstrated remarkably …
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Control of Nanoscale Thermal Transport for Thermoelectric Energy Conversion and Thermal Rectification
Materials at the nanoscale show properties uniquely different from the bulk scale which when controlled can be utilized for variety of thermal management applications. Different applications require reduction, increase or directional control of thermal conductivity. This thesis focuses on …
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NANOSCALE ENERGY TRANSPORT IN PHOTOVOLTAIC AND THERMOELECTRIC NANOMATERIALS
Semiconductor nanocrystals are promising for photovoltaic and thermoelectric applications due to the size-tuned electrical, thermal, and optical properties. For example, they can be size-tuned to emit and absorb light in a specific wavelength range. Their small size also makes multiple exciton …
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Photothermal properties and applications of gold nanorods
… systems for drug delivery; investigating the nanoscale thermal transport properties at the solid-liquid interfaces; and studying the light emission induced by hot electron-hole pairs in GNRs. In the first chapter, the colloidal synthetic strategy of GNRs, developed by the Murphy research …