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. 2020 Apr 11;10(4):734. doi: 10.3390/nano10040734

Table 1.

Different types of nanoparticles and basefluids used in fabricating nanofluids.

Origin Nanoparticles Basefluids Source
Metals Cu * Water, EG, oil, acetone, and water & EG mixture. [68,74,75,76,77,78,79]
Ag * Water, and toluene. [80,81]
Au * Water, and toluene. [81,82,83]
Al * Water, oil, EG, kerosene. [15,84,85,86,87]
Oxides Al2O3 * Water, EG, oil, and water & glycerine mixture. [82,88,89,90,91,92,93,94,95,96]
CuO * Water, oil, and R-134a *. [92,93,97,98,99,100,101]
ZnO * Water, EG, and oil. [102,103,104,105,106,107,108,109]
TiO2 * Water, EG, oil, water & EG mixture, and bioglycol & water mixture. [110,111,112,113,114,115,116]
SiO2 * Water, EG, glycerol, oil, and glycerol & EG mixture. [80,117,118,119,120,121]
Carbon-based MWCNTs * Water, EG, water & EG mixture, and fullerenes oil. [88,122,123,124,125,126,127,128]
DWCNTs * Water, and EG. [129,130]
SWCNTs * Water, water & EG mixture. [131,132]
Nanodiamond Water, EG, propylene glycol, midel oil, silicone oil, mineral oil, transformer oil, and engine oil. [133]
Graphene Water, water & EG mixture. [134,135,136]
Graphite Water, texatherm oil. [137,138,139]

(*) Note: Cu, Ag, Au, Al, Al2O3, CuO, ZnO, TiO2, SiO2, MWCNTs, DWCNTs, SWCNTs, and R-134a are referred to copper, silver, gold, aluminium, aluminium oxide (also known as alumina), copper oxide (also known as cupric oxide), zinc oxide, titanium oxide, silicon dioxide (also known as silica), multi-walled CNTs, double-walled CNTs, single-walled CNTs, and 1,1,1,2-Tetrafluoroethane, respectively.