Abstract:
Heat and charge transport characteristics of nanocolloids have been bridged from
fundamental analysis. The relationship between the two transport phenomena in
dielectric nanostructure based polar colloids has been quantitatively presented. An
extensional intuitive analogy to the Wiedemann–Franz law has been drawn.
Derived from the fact that mobile electrons transport both heat and charge within
metallic crystal structure, the analogy can be extended to nanocolloids, wherein the
dispersed population act as the major transporter. The analogy allows modeling the
relationship between the two phenomena and sheds more insight and conclusive
evidence that nanoparticle traversal within the fluid domain is the main source of
augmented transport phenomena exhibit by nanocolloids. Important factors such
as the thermal and dielectric responses of the nanocolloid can be quantified and
bridged through the semi–analytical formalism. The theoretical analysis has been
validated against experimental data and variant scientific literature and good
accuracy has been observed.
