Abstract
How to make the best use of the unique properties of nanomaterials, in different fluidic applications, has gained a lot of attention in the last few decades. Dispersing the nanomaterials in a conventional fluid can provide a wide range of alternative thermal, rheological, and optical properties for the new nano-enhanced fluids (nanofluids), depending on different affecting parameters. Different metal, metal oxide, and carbon-based nanomaterials were used for this purpose. This chapter provides a step forward in understanding the optical behavior of metal-oxide-based nanofluids and how metal oxides play a major role in controlling the optical response of several nanofluids. This flexible controlled optical behavior has met great interest to increase the absorption of solar energy from one side and work as a spectral-selective filter for solar radiation from another side. This chapter, in different sections, deals with a number of topics in this regard starting from the techniques used for the synthesis of nanofluids, passing by the parameters influencing the optical behavior of nanofluids, the analytical evaluation of optical properties, the optical behavior of metal-oxide-based nanofluids, and ending by their applications in different solar-harvesting-related systems.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Progress in Optical Science and Photonics |
| Publisher | Springer |
| Pages | 93-131 |
| Number of pages | 39 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2023 |
Publication series
| Name | Progress in Optical Science and Photonics |
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| Volume | 26 |
| ISSN (Print) | 2363-5096 |
| ISSN (Electronic) | 2363-510X |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Biomedical Engineering
- Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
- Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics