TechConnect Proceedings Papers
Month: May 2016
Study on Sodium Nanofluid for Fast Reactor (1)Concept of Sodium Nanofluid
Liquid sodium is used for a coolant of fast reactor (FR), because it has superior properties. For example, there are high heat conductivity, high melting temperature and excellent compatibility with structural materials. However high reactivity [...]
Natural Convection of a Nanofluid in a Conical Container
Natural convection is simulated in a truncated cone filled with nanofluid. Inclined walls wall have constant temperature where the heat source is located on the bottom wall of the conical container which is thermally insulated. [...]
Drying Graphene Nanofluid on Heated Substrate
With many extraordinary properties, especially the extremely high thermal conductivity, the graphene has potential applications in energy, electronic, medicine and so on. The addition of graphene nanoparticle to prepare water-based or ethylene-glycol-based nanofluid can significantly [...]
Droplet formation of highly viscous Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids in a microfluidic flow focusing device: scaling of droplet size and production frequency
Authesserre C., Bottausci F., Costa G., Alessio M., Benhamou P-Y., Icard B., Rivera F., CEA-Leti Grenoble, FR
Polymer particles are largely used for different applications such as chromatography columns, calibration standards, drug delivery or cell encapsulation1. For all these applications, high size monodispersity and production frequency are required. Moreover, the polymers are [...]
Evaporation of Binary Mixture Nanofluid Drops: Pattern Formation
After the complete evaporation of a sessile nanofluid drop, different deposition patterns can be formed on a substrate. The study of deposited patterns left after the drying of a drop containing suspensions has a significant [...]
Field-directed Self-assembly of Multifunctional Magnetic-Plasmonic Core-shell Nanoparticles with Applications to Photonics
Interest in the manipulation and self-assembly of magnetic nanoparticles has grown in recent years due to advances in particle synthesis and functionalization, which have led to a proliferation of applications that include the biomolecular transport, [...]
Microfluidic platform for studies of self-organizing processes in a bacterial cell
Cells maintain their structure and reproduce through numerous self-organizing processes. The common approach to understand how cellular organization is maintained is to perturb this organization and then observe a response from the cell. Essentially all [...]
Fabrication of Conductive Nanoporous Membranes using Self-Assembling Block for Electrically Controlled Diffusive Flow
Nanoporous membranes have been recognized as promising candidates for drug delivery applications due to their small pore size and high surface-to-volume ratio1. The ultimate goal of smart drug delivery systems is to release a specific [...]
Combined effects of pump and capillary pressures for the filling of microchannel networks: the difficulty of synchronization
In this work, we first propose a model for the filling of a capillary tube driven by a pressure pump. It is shown that the filling time depends not only on the pump pressure but [...]