Nonspherical shapes, including clusters formed by colloidal aggregation, provide substantially higher enhancements.
Saba Lotfizadeh, Themis Matsoukas 2015, 'Effect of Nanostructure on Thermal Conductivity of Nanofluids', Journal of Nanomaterialshttp://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/697596. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
A powder with nonspherical star shape was synthesized at low temperature.
Syang-Peng Rwei, Lee Yi Wang, Po-Wen Yang 2013, 'Synthesis and Magnetorheology Study of Iron Oxide and Iron Cobalt Oxide Suspensions',Journal of Nanomaterialshttp://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/612894. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The scattering properties of nonspherical particles can be approximately computed by equivalent spherical theory.
Jinhu Wang, Junxiang Ge, Ming Wei, Hongbin Chen, Zexin Yang, Yushu Ren, Qilin Zhang,Hao Chen 2019, 'Theoretical and Experimental Study on Echo Fluctuation Suppression of a Cirrus Cloudby Millimeter Wave MIMO Radar', International Journal of Antennas and Propagationhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/5937973. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Focusing on this aspect, in this study a new series of experiments using nonspherical particles have been conducted.
Songbai Cheng, Pengfeng Gong, Shixian Wang, Jinjiang Cui, Yujia Qian, Ting Zhang,Guangyu Jiang 2018, 'Investigation of flow regime in debris bed formation behavior with nonspherical particles',Nuclear Engineering and Technologyhttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S173857331730236X. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
This work explains the cause of crossovers in the power-law structure of scattering curves for sphericaland nonspherical particles.
M. Berg 2011, 'The cause of characteristic lengths in scattering curves', Atti della Accademia Peloritana dei Pericolanti : Classe di Scienze Fisiche, Matematichee Naturalihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1478/C1V89S1P018. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Higher density foams contain larger-sized micropearls (≈6–9 μm diameter) which often coalesced to form nonspherical μm-sized units.
Natalie Frese, Shelby Taylor Mitchell, Christof Neumann, Amanda Bowers, Armin Gölzhäuser,Klaus Sattler 2016, 'Fundamental properties of high-quality carbon nanofoam: from low to high density',Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnologyhttps://doi.org/10.3762/bjnano.7.197. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)