In this paper, a new hydrothermal method-discharging-gas method-is introduced. ZnO acicular particles with the ratio of length and diameter 16 : 1 are synthesized by the hydrothermal discharging-gas method using a mixed solution of Zn(CH 3 COO) 2 with NaNO 2 as precursor at 190 ± C for 1 h. The effects of reaction temperature and precursor concentration on formation of acicular particles are investigated. The results show that the main factor for formation of acicular particles prepared by the hydrothermal discharging-gas method is the extent of crystallinity of ZnO powders before releasing gas.
To investigate the viscosity of hybrid nanofluids containing two kinds of nanoparticles, a series of experiments are conducted on TiO 2-Ag/ engine oil, Al 2 O 3-Ag/engine oil (a mixture of the volume ratio of 50:50) nanofluids under different shear rates and volume fractions. The results show that the viscosity decreases with increasing shear rate, which suggests TiO 2-Ag/engine oil and Al 2 O 3-Ag/engine oil hybrid nanofluids are both shear thinning fluids, whilst the viscosity of all samples enhances with the increase of volume fraction. Moreover, an interesting result is observed that the hybrid nanofluids have a lower viscosity than single particle nanofluids. Also, through the validating experiment based on Al 2 O 3-Al 2 O 3 /engine oil with different diameters, it shows that different materials with unlike morphologies mixture are more likely to reduce the viscosity than dissimilar nanoparticles mixture of just one material.
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