Scalable manufacturing of hierarchical nanostructures for thermal management
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Author(s)
Love, Christopher J., Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Advisor(s)
Kripa K. Varanasi.
Date Issued
2012
Publisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Abstract
The focus of this thesis is a new simple and scalable process to make surface coatings that have multiple length scales, or hierarchical features. Typically, the formation of hierarchical structures involves multiple steps and/or long processing times. In this new process, the hierarchical geometry is formed in a single step. The starting material-spherical copper powder-is oxidized in ambient air. Depending on the starting size of the powder, copper oxide nanowires may or may not form. Systematic thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) and in-situ x-ray diffraction (XRD) studies provide insights into the size-dependent thermal oxidation process. The proposed mechanism is supported by another interesting geometrical transformation: in the same single-step process, a large void is formed in the particles. The tunable nanowire growth is used to make new kinds of hierarchical coatings with enhanced heat-transfer performance in spray-cooling applications, which include nuclear reactor boiling, continuous casting of metals, and thermal management of electronics.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 2012.
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 24-26).
Subjects
Mechanical Engineering.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering
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