Thermal Probes Of Nanoparticle Interfaces: Thermodiffusion And Thermal Conductivity Of Nanoparticle Suspensions (2007)
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Shawn Arthur Putnam
Overview
This dissertation presents an experimental study of heat transport and mass transport in nanoparticle composites. The 3o-method was used for high precision thermal conductivity measurements of PMMA polymers filled with alumina nanoparticles. A microfluidic beam deflection technique, developed in this thesis, was used to measure both the thermal conductivity () and the thermodiffusion coefficient (DT) of nanoparticle suspensions.