Temperature dynamics of laser irradiated gold nanoparticles embedded in a polymer matrix

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Agachi, Paul

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Publication Details

Author list: Gherman AMM, Tosa N, Dadarlat DN, Tosa V, Cristea MV, Agachi PS

Publisher: Elsevier

Place: AMSTERDAM

Publication year: 2017

Journal: Thermochimica Acta (0040-6031)

Journal acronym: THERMOCHIM ACTA

Volume number: 656

Start page: 25

End page: 31

Number of pages: 7

ISSN: 0040-6031

Languages: English-Great Britain (EN-GB)

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Abstract

In this work the temperature evolution, in time and space, in two systems that consist of a single gold nano particle and an ensemble of gold nanoparticles, both embedded in a polystyrene sulfonic acid matrix, is numerically modeled. The heat accumulated by the gold nanoparticles is estimated considering the system irradiation with a nanosecond laser at 532 mn. The distribution of the temperature in time and space is calculated by solving the heat diffusion equations with appropriate initial and boundary conditions. The rise of nanoparticle size determined the temperature increase of the gold nanoparticle and implicitly of the entire system but also the increase of the necessary time for reaching the thermal equilibrium of the system related to the surrounding polymer volume. The temperature evolution and the dynamics of the system towards reaching the thermal equilibrium are influenced by the gold nanoparticles distribution in the polymer matrix.

Keywords

gold nanoparticle, Heat transfer, Laser irradiation, Polymer matrix, Temperature distribution

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