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Light-induced electrohydrodynamic instability in plasmonically absorbing gold nanofluids

Sujan Shrestha1, Jorge Luis Dominguez-Juarez2, and Luat T. Vuong1,3,*

  • 1Department of Physics, Queens College of the City University of New York, Flushing, New York 11367, USA
  • 2Cátedras CONACyT, CFATA, Universidad Nacional Autònoma de México, Boulevard Juriquilla 3001, Querétaro 76230, Mexico
  • 3Department of Physics, Graduate Center of the City University of New York, New York, New York 10016, USA

  • *Corresponding author: luat.vuong@qc.cuny.edu
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Phys. Rev. Fluids 2, 064201 – Published 1 June, 2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.2.064201

Abstract

Plasmonically absorbing nanofluids exhibit light-induced electrokinetics. We measure an electrical response to the light-induced Rayleigh-Bénard-Marangoni convective instabilities in gold-polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) nanoparticles (NPs) suspended in isopropanol and water. Microampere current oscillations are measured and attributed to the presence of the Au-PVP NPs with negative zeta potential, in correspondence with the accompanying thermal lens oscillations and a nanofluid thermoelectric effect. The measured electrical oscillations represent an electrohydrodynamic stability driven by light, one among many that should be observed with plasmonic nanoparticles in liquids.

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Phys. Rev. Fluids 2, 064201– Published 1 June, 2017
  • Received 28 January 2017
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