Search Results - "Prasher, Ravi"
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Graphene Spreads the Heat
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (09-04-2010)“…Can graphite monolayers outcompete traditional heat-spreading materials in electronic devices? The reliability and speed of electronic and optoelectronic…”
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Acoustic mismatch model for thermal contact resistance of van der Waals contacts
Published in Applied physics letters (26-01-2009)“…Nanoparticles are typically in contact with another surface through weak van der Waals force. Thermal transport in these nanostructured systems is mainly…”
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Thermal boundary resistance and thermal conductivity of multiwalled carbon nanotubes
Published in Physical review. B, Condensed matter and materials physics (25-02-2008)Get full text
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Analysis and improvement of the hot disk transient plane source method for low thermal conductivity materials
Published in International journal of heat and mass transfer (01-04-2020)“…•Provided comprehensive numerical and experimental study that for the first time clearly identifies the key error sources in hot disk TPS measurements of low-k…”
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Five thermal energy grand challenges for decarbonization
Published in Nature energy (01-09-2020)“…Roughly 90% of the world’s energy use today involves generation or manipulation of heat over a wide range of temperatures. Here, we note five key applications…”
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Extreme fast charging of commercial Li-ion batteries via combined thermal switching and self-heating approaches
Published in Nature communications (03-06-2023)“…The mass adoption of electric vehicles is hindered by the inadequate extreme fast charging (XFC) performance (i.e., less than 15 min charging time to reach 80%…”
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Far-field coherent thermal emission from polaritonic resonance in individual anisotropic nanoribbons
Published in Nature communications (26-03-2019)“…Coherent thermal emission deviates from the Planckian blackbody emission with a narrow spectrum and strong directionality. While far-field thermal emission…”
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Integrated cooling (i-Cool) textile of heat conduction and sweat transportation for personal perspiration management
Published in Nature communications (21-10-2021)“…Perspiration evaporation plays an indispensable role in human body heat dissipation. However, conventional textiles tend to focus on sweat removal and pay…”
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Enhanced solar evaporation using a photo-thermal umbrella for wastewater management
Published in Nature sustainability (01-02-2020)“…Zero-liquid discharge is an emerging wastewater management strategy that maximizes water recovery for reuse and produces a solid waste, thereby lowering the…”
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Searching for a Better Thermal Battery
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (23-03-2012)“…Improved materials for storing heat could save energy in applications such as heating and cooling and could enhance generation from solar thermal plants…”
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Microrheological modeling of lithium ion battery anode slurry
Published in Journal of power sources (31-10-2019)“…The rheological properties of electrode slurries used in the manufacturing of lithium-ion batteries affect the manufacturing processes as well as the battery…”
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Measurements of nanofluid viscosity and its implications for thermal applications
Published in Applied physics letters (25-09-2006)“…Experimental results on the viscosity of alumina-based nanofluids are reported for various shear rates, temperature, nanoparticle diameter, and nanoparticle…”
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On-chip cooling by superlattice-based thin-film thermoelectrics
Published in Nature nanotechnology (01-04-2009)“…There is a significant need for site-specific and on-demand cooling in electronic 1 , 2 , optoelectronic 3 and bioanalytical 4 devices, where cooling is…”
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Predicting the Thermal Resistance of Nanosized Constrictions
Published in Nano letters (01-11-2005)“…Various devices and technologies using nanowires and nanoparticles are under intense investigation because of their promise. In these devices, nanowires or…”
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Thermal conductance of nanofluids: is the controversy over?
Published in Journal of nanoparticle research : an interdisciplinary forum for nanoscale science and technology (01-10-2008)“…Over the last decade nanofluids (colloidal suspensions of solid nanoparticles) sparked excitement as well as controversy. In particular, a number of researches…”
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Effect of Aggregation Kinetics on the Thermal Conductivity of Nanoscale Colloidal Solutions (Nanofluid)
Published in Nano letters (01-07-2006)“…The thermal conductivity, k, of nanoscale colloidal suspensions (also known as nanofluid), consisting of nanoparticles suspended in a base liquid, is much…”
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Solar Desalination Using Thermally Responsive Ionic Liquids Regenerated with a Photonic Heater
Published in Environmental science & technology (02-03-2021)“…Growing global water demand has brought desalination technologies to the forefront for freshwater production from nontraditional water sources. Among these,…”
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Thermal conductivity of tubular and core/shell nanowires
Published in Applied physics letters (07-08-2006)“…Analytical solution of the Boltzmann transport equation (BTE) for phonon transport in tubular and core-shell nanowire is obtained. Thermal conductivity…”
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Effect of aggregation on thermal conduction in colloidal nanofluids
Published in Applied physics letters (02-10-2006)“…Using effective medium theory the authors demonstrate that the thermal conductivity of nanofluids can be significantly enhanced by the aggregation of…”
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High thermoelectric figure of merit of porous Si nanowires from 300 to 700 K
Published in Nature communications (24-06-2021)“…Thermoelectrics operating at high temperature can cost-effectively convert waste heat and compete with other zero-carbon technologies. Among different…”
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