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Table 11.1 Different available techniques for the synthesis of nanofluids in a
one-step process
Nanofluid
Preparation method
Ag-silicon oil
Vacuum evaporation onto a running
oil substrate (VEROS) (Yatsuya et al.,
1978)
Fe-silicon oil
Vacuum evaporation on running
liquids (VERL) process (Wagener and
Gunther, 1999)
Ag-silicon oil
Cu-ethylene glycol
Direct condensation technique
(Eastman et al., 2001)
Ag-water
Citrate reduction method (Patel et al.,
2003)
Au-water
Au-toluene
Brust et al. procedure (Patel et al.,
2003)
Cu-ethylene glycol (EG)
Microwave irradiation (Zhu et al., 2004)
Ag-EG
Microwave dielectric heating (Patel
et al., 2005)
Ag-glycerol
CuO-water/EG Submerged arc nanoparticle synthesis
system (SANSS) (Lo et al., 2005a)
Cu-dielectric fluids SANSS (Lo et al., 2005b)
Ag-ethylene glycol (PVP) Magnetic stirring at room temperature
(Slistan-Grijalva et al., 2005)
Au-toluene Chemical reaction method (Zhang
et al., 2006a)
Cu-water Chemical reduction method (Liu et al.,
2006)
CuO-water Microwave irradiation (Zhu et al., 2007)
Ag-water Submerged arc nanoparticle synthesis
system (SANSS) (Lo et al., 2007)
SiO
2
-water Sol-precipitation method (Tao et al.,
2007)
Ag-water Multi-pulse laser ablation technique
(Phuoc et al., 2007)
Au(core)/Ag(shell)-water
Chemical reduction method (Fuentes
et al., 2008)
Indium-PAO oil
Nanoemulsification technique (Han
et al., 2008)
Al
2
O
3
-water
Plasma arc system (Chang and Chang,
2008)
Ag-silicon oil
Magnetron sputtering (Hwang et al.,
2008)
Cu-EG
Reduction of copper sulfate using
sodium hypophosphite (Kumar et al.,
2009)
Spherical Fe
3
O
4
in water/various oils
Chemical solution method (Wang and
Wei, 2009)
Elliptic Cu nanorods in EG or EG/water
mixtures
Needlelike CuO nanoparticles in water/
various oils
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