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The discovery of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) has inspired significant interest in recent years, due to the tremendous promise related to their thermal, electrical, mechanical, and functional properties. For example, it has been reported that fluids containing single-walled carbon nanotubes exhibit a thermal conductivity ranging from 2,000 to 6,000 W/mK [1] under ideal circumstances. By contrast, typical heat transfer fluids such as water and oil have thermal conductivity values of only 0.6 and 0.2 W/mK, respectively.
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The financial support of Army Research Lab (Cooperative agreement W911NF-08-2-0022) and NASA EPSCoR (award No. NNX09AU83A) is acknowledged. The author would also like to recognize the following people for their contributions to this chapter: Dustin Thomas and Brian Wright, SDSM&T Department of Materials and Metallurgical Engineering, for their help with thermal conductivity measurements; Lori Groven and Jan Puszynski, SDSM&T Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, for their help with the preparation of the Ni-coated nanotubes; Edward Duke, SDSM&T Department of Geology and Geological Engineering, for his help with SEM imaging; Chen Li, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of South Carolina; and Bo Shi, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, for their help on high-speed microscope image recording. Finally, the author would like to thank Sungho Jin, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University of California San Diego, for his foresight, initial magnetically sensitive nanotube samples and many technical comments.
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Hong, H., Horton, M., Peterson, G. (2011). Aligned Ni-Coated Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Under Magnetic Field for Coolant Applications. In: Zhou, W., Wang, Z. (eds) Three-Dimensional Nanoarchitectures. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9822-4_18
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