1. Measuring thermal diffusivity of azoheteroarene thin layers by photothermal beam deflection and photothermal lens methodsAmeneh Mikaeeli, Dorota Korte, Humberto Cabrera, Dariusz Chomicki, Dariusz Dziczek, Oksana Kharchenko, Peng Song, Junyan Liu, Andreas D. Wieck, Michal Pawlak, 2023, original scientific article Keywords: thin films, photothermal spectroscopy, thermal transport, thermal wave, thermal conductivity, thermal diffusivity
Published in RUNG: 21.09.2023; Views: 2189; Downloads: 6
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3. Synthesis and Characterization of MWCNT-COOH/Fe3O4 and CNT-COOH/Fe3O4/NiO Nanocomposites: Assessment of Adsorption and Photocatalytic PerformanceAdina Stegarescu, Humberto Cabrera, Hanna Budasheva, Maria-Loredana Soran, Ildiko Lung, Francesca Limosani, Dorota Korte, Matteo Amati, Gheorghe Borodi, Ocsana Opris, Monica Dan, Stefano Bellucci, 2022, original scientific article Keywords: carbon nanotubes, magnetite, tartrazine, photodegradation, adsorption, water decontamination
Published in RUNG: 02.09.2022; Views: 2442; Downloads: 31
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4. Advantages and disadvantages of photothermal measurement methods estimating thermal transport properties (such as thermal conductivity, diffusivity and boundary resistance) of multilayered samplesAmeneh Mikaeeli, A Chatterjee, Dorota Korte, Humberto Cabrera, Beata Derkowska-Zielinska, Michal Pawlak, 2022, published scientific conference contribution abstract Keywords: thermal properties, Photothermal radiometry, beam deflection spectrometry, thermal lens spectrometry, thermoreflectance
Published in RUNG: 30.06.2022; Views: 2364; Downloads: 52
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5. Thermal Lensing of Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotube Solutions as Heat-Transfer NanofluidsMohanachandran Nair Sindhu Swapna, RAJ VIMAL, CABRERA HUMBERTO, SANKARARAMAN SANKARANARAYANA IYER, 2021, original scientific article Abstract: This paper unwraps nanofluids’ particle dynamics with
multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) in base fluids such as
acetone, water, and ethylene glycol. Having confirmed the
morphology and structure of the MWCNTs by field emission
scanning electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction, and Raman
spectroscopic analyses, the nanofluids are prepared in three different concentrations. The nonzero absorbance at the laser wavelength, revealed through the UV−visible spectrum, makes the thermal diffusivity study of the sample by the sensitive nondestructive single beam thermal lens (TL) technique possible. The TL signal analysis by time series and fractal techniques divulges the complex particle dynamics, through phase portrait, sample entropy, fractal dimension, and Hurst exponent. The study unveils the effect of the amount of nanoparticles and the viscosity of the medium on thermal diffusivity and particle dynamics. The observed inverse relation between thermal diffusivity and viscosity is in good agreement with the
Sankar−Swapna model. The complexity of particle dynamics in MWCNT nanofluids reflected through sample entropy, and fractal
dimension shows an inverse relation to the base fluid’s viscosity. This paper investigates the role of viscosity of the base fluid on particle dynamics and thermal diffusivity of the nanofluid to explore its applicability in various thermal systems, thereby suggesting a method to tune the sample entropy through proper selection of base fluid.
Keywords: MWCNT, thermal lens, fractals, nonlinear time series, phase portrait, sample entropy
Published in RUNG: 28.06.2022; Views: 2334; Downloads: 0
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6. Through-plane and in-plane thermal diffusivity determination of graphene nanoplatelets by photothermal beam deflection spectrometryHumberto Cabrera, Dorota Korte, Hanna Budasheva, Behnaz Abbasgholi N. Asbaghi, Stefano Bellucci, 2021, original scientific article Abstract: In this work, in-plane and through-plane thermal diffusivities and conductivities of a freestanding
sheet of graphene nanoplatelets are determined using photothermal beam deflection spectrometry.
Two experimental methods were employed in order to observe the effect of load pressures
on the thermal diffusivity and conductivity of the materials. The in-plane thermal diffusivity was
determined by the use of a slope method supported by a new theoretical model, whereas the
through-plane thermal diffusivity was determined by a frequency scan method in which the obtained
data were processed with a specifically developed least-squares data processing algorithm.
On the basis of the determined values, the in-plane and through-plane thermal conductivities and
their dependences on the values of thermal diffusivity were found. The results show a significant
difference in the character of thermal parameter dependence between the two methods. In the case
of the in-plane configuration of the experimental setup, the thermal conductivity decreases with the
increase in thermal diffusivity, whereas with the through-plane variant, the thermal conductivity
increases with an increase in thermal diffusivity for the whole range of the loading pressure used.
This behavior is due to the dependence of heat propagation on changes introduced in the graphene
nano-platelets structure by compression.
Keywords: graphene nanoplatelets, thermal diffusivity, thermal conductivity, photothermal spectrometry
Published in RUNG: 30.11.2021; Views: 2819; Downloads: 71
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7. Characterization of Cu and Zr modified TiO[sub]2 photocatalysts by photothermal beam deflection spectrometryMahmoud Abdelhamid, Dorota Korte, Humberto Cabrera, Zeinab Ebrahimpour, Olena Pliekhova, Urška Lavrenčič Štangar, Mladen Franko, 2021, published scientific conference contribution abstract Keywords: photocatalysts, TiO2, Cu/Zr, photodegradation, material characterization, photothermal spectrometry
Published in RUNG: 23.11.2021; Views: 3352; Downloads: 0
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8. Thermo-optical characterization of Cu- and Zr-modified TiO[sub]2 photocatalysts by beam deflection spectrometryMahmoud Abdelhamid, Dorota Korte, Humberto Cabrera, Olena Pliekhova, Zeinab Ebrahimpour, Urška Lavrenčič Štangar, Mladen Franko, 2021, original scientific article Keywords: photocatalysts, TiO2, Cu/Zr, photodegradation, material characterization, photothermal spectrometry
Published in RUNG: 23.11.2021; Views: 2576; Downloads: 100
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9. Photodegradation mechanisms of reactive blue 19 dye under UV and simulated solar light irradiationZeinab Ebrahimpour, Olena Pliekhova, Humberto Cabrera, Mahmoud Abdelhamid, Dorota Korte, Komlan Segbéya Gadedjisso-Tossou, Joseph J. Niemela, Urška Lavrenčič Štangar, Mladen Franko, 2021, original scientific article Keywords: reactive blue 19, photocatalytic, photosensitization, thermal lens, UV-Vis
Published in RUNG: 02.02.2021; Views: 3435; Downloads: 0
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10. A multi-thermal-lens approach to evaluation of multi-pass probe beam configuration in thermal lens spectrometryHumberto Cabrera, Leja Goljat, Dorota Korte, Ernesto Marin, Mladen Franko, original scientific article Abstract: In this work, a recently proposed thermal lens instrument based on multi-pass probe beam concept is investigated and described as a multi-thermal-lens equivalent system. A simulation of the photothermal lens signal formation in a multi-thermal-lens equivalent configuration of the system is performed and validated by comparing the experimental signals of single, dual and ten-pass configurations to theoretically calculated values. The theoretically predicted enhancement of the signal is 9 to 10-fold for a weak thermal lens when comparing the ten-pass configuration with the conventional single-pass thermal lens system. Experimentally achieved signal enhancement in the ten-pass system is 8.3 for pure ethanol sample and between 8 and 9 for solutions with different concentrations of the Fe(II) - 1,10-Phenanthroline complex. Additionally, a value of 9.1 was calculated as the ratio of the slopes of the calibration lines obtained using the ten-pass and single-pass configurations. The achieved limit of detection for determination of Fe(II), in the ten-pass configuration, was 0.4 µgL-1, with a relative standard deviation around 4.5%, which compares favorably with previously reported results for TLS determination of Fe(II) in thin samples using low excitation power. For the multi-pass configuration the linear range of measurement is reduced when compared to the single-pass configuration. This is explained by the theoretical analysis of the photothermal signal under multi-pass condition, which shows the important contribution of the nonlinear term in the theoretical expression for the photothermal signal. The ten-pass configuration, which is presented and validated experimentally for the first time, offers important signal enhancement needed in recently developed TLS instruments with tunable, low power excitation sources.
Keywords: Thermal lens spectrometry, Photothermal detection, Trace determination, Chemical sensor
Published in RUNG: 10.12.2019; Views: 4200; Downloads: 0
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