Superstructured assembly of nanocarbons: fullerenes, nanotubes, and graphene

Z Li, Z Liu, H Sun, C Gao - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
Carbon is one of the basic elements for life on Earth. It exists in diverse allotropic forms while
being different in chemical and physical properties. The best well-known natural allotropes …

A review of cooling in microchannels

JF Tullius, R Vajtai, Y Bayazitoglu - Heat Transfer Engineering, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Advancements in electronic performance result in a decrease in device size and increase in
power density. Because of these advancements, current cooling mechanisms for electronic …

Nano-biotechnology: carbon nanofibres as improved neural and orthopaedic implants

TJ Webster, MC Waid, JL McKenzie, RL Price… - …, 2004 - iopscience.iop.org
For the continuous monitoring, diagnosis, and treatment of neural tissue, implantable probes
are required. However, sometimes such neural probes (usually composed of silicon) …

Capillarity-driven assembly of two-dimensional cellular carbon nanotube foams

N Chakrapani, B Wei, A Carrillo… - Proceedings of the …, 2004 - National Acad Sciences
Capillary forces arising during the evaporation of liquids from dense carbon nanotube arrays
are used to reassemble the nanotubes into two-dimensional contiguous cellular foams. The …

Controllable Assembly of WO3 Nanorods/Nanowires into Hierarchical Nanostructures

Z Gu, T Zhai, B Gao, X Sheng, Y Wang… - The Journal of …, 2006 - ACS Publications
The controlled synthesis of two novel h-WO3 hierarchical structures made of
nanorods/nanowires has been successfully realized in a large scale via a simple …

Nanoscale surface modification techniques for pool boiling enhancement—a critical review and future directions

YW Lu, SG Kandlikar - Heat Transfer Engineering, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
New discoveries presented in the last decade for enhancing boiling performance utilizing
nanoscale structures on surfaces are critically examined in this paper. Since the mechanism …

Photocatalytic hydrogen generation using a nanocomposite of multi-walled carbon nanotubes and TiO2 nanoparticles under visible light irradiation

K Dai, T Peng, D Ke, B Wei - Nanotechnology, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Nanocomposite catalysts (MWNT–TiO 2) were prepared hydrothermally from multi-
walled carbon nanotubes (MWNTs) and titanium sulfate as the titanium source, and then …

Hybrid micro-nano structured thermal interfaces for pool boiling heat transfer enhancement

S Launay, AG Fedorov, Y Joshi, A Cao… - Microelectronics …, 2006 - Elsevier
Boiling heat transfer from hybrid micro-nano structured thermal interfaces has been studied
experimentally using PF5060 and deionized water as working fluids for the range of …

Review of the manufacturing techniques for porous surfaces used in enhanced pool boiling

CM Patil, SG Kandlikar - Heat Transfer Engineering, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Continuous development of high-performance microelectronic chips requires efficient
cooling systems to dissipate large amount of heat produced over a small footprint. Pool …

Fundamental mechanical properties of carbon nanotubes: current understanding and the related experimental studies

MF Yu - J. Eng. Mater. Technol., 2004 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Representing a new class of nanoscale material, carbon nanotubes possess many
extraordinary mechanical and electronic properties stemming essentially from their unique …