Georgia Tech Research Corporation

South Dakota Board of Regents

South Dakota School of Mines

G P “Bud” Peterson

Haiping Hong

The present invention relates to thermal materials and methods of making the same. Disclosed herein is a thermal material, comprising: a boron-containing nanomaterial; and a thermal fluid operable to hydrogen bond with the boron-containing nanomaterial; wherein the thermal material presents an increase in thermal conductivity over the pure thermal fluid by an amount of 30% or greater. Also disclosed herein are methods for making a thermal material.

Thermal management materials and methods of making the same

Disclosed herein is a method of homogeneously mixing solids, comprising: mixing, in a fluid medium, at least a first nanoparticle material and a surfactant, wherein the surfactant causes the first nanoparticle material to distribute uniformly in the fluid medium and have a specific charge; adding, to the fluid medium, a second nanoparticle material, wherein the surfactant has a charge of opposite polarity to the zeta potential of the second nanoparticle material; attaching the second nanoparticle material to the first nanoparticle material using the charge attraction of the surfactant and the second nanoparticle material to obtain a homogeneous material; and removing the attached first and second nanoparticle materials from the fluid medium to obtain a solid homogeneous material.

Homogeneously mixed solids and methods of making the same

The present invention is a nanoparticle mixture or suspension or nanofluid comprising nonmagnetically sensitive nanoparticles, magnetically sensitive nanoparticles, and surfactant(s). The present invention also relates to methods of preparing and using the same.

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G P “Bud” Peterson