Recent years have seen a growing interest in using metal nanostructures to control
temperature on the nanoscale. Under illumination at its plasmonic resonance, a metal …

Nanofluids—a simple product of the emerging world of nanotechnology—are suspensions
of nanoparticles (nominally 1–100 nm in size) in conventional base fluids such as water …

Solar–thermal water evaporation (SWE) has received much interest in recent years due to a
few seminal works on materials innovation and thermal management. With many studies …

A diverse spectrum of technology drivers such as improved thermal barriers, higher
efficiency thermoelectric energy conversion, phase-change memory, heat-assisted magnetic …

Suspensions of nanoparticles (ie, particles with diameters< 100 nm) in liquids, termed
nanofluids, show remarkable thermal and optical property changes from the base liquid at …

Featuring contributions by leading researchers in the field, Nanoparticle Heat Transfer and
Fluid Flow explores heat transfer and fluid flow processes in nanomaterials and nanofluids …

We investigate theoretically and numerically the thermodynamics of gold nanoparticles
immersed in water and illuminated by a femtosecond-pulsed laser at their plasmonic …

We have used short laser pulses to generate transient vapor nanobubbles around
plasmonic nanoparticles. The photothermal, mechanical, and optical properties of such …

In this contribution, we study situations in which nanoparticles in a fluid are strongly heated,
generating high heat fluxes. This situation is relevant to experiments in which a fluid is …

The vast field of laser-enabled material synthesis, manufacturing, and processing to a large
degree relies on the ability to induce and control a range of thermal processes triggered by …