Enhanced Heat Flow between Charged Nanoparticles and an Aqueous Electrolyte.

Heat transfer through the interface between a metallic nanoparticle and an electrolyte solution has great importance in a number of applications, ranging from nanoparticle-based cancer treatments to nanofluids and solar energy conversion devices. However, the impact of the surface charge and dissolved ions on heat transfer has been scarcely explored so far. In this study, we compute the interface thermal conductance between hydrophilic and hydrophobic charged gold nanoparticles immersed in an electrolyte using equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations.

Enhanced local viscosity around colloidal nanoparticles probed by equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations.

Nanofluids-dispersions of nanometer-sized particles in a liquid medium-have been proposed for a wide variety of thermal management applications. It is known that a solid-like nanolayer of liquid of typical thicknesses of 0.5-1 nm surrounding the colloidal nanoparticles can act as a thermal bridge between the nanoparticle and the bulk liquid.

Thermally induced stress in a nanoconfined gas medium.

Molecular dynamics simulations of static argon gas at three different levels of rarefaction are conducted for a channel of 5.4 nm height to investigate the simultaneous effect of the wall force field and the gas temperature on the stress distribution along the channel height. Using the interactive thermal wall model, different temperatures are applied on the channel walls to be able to investigate the effect of the wall temperature and the induced heat flux through the gas medium on the stress distribution.