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Light-Induced Electrohydrodynamic Instability In Plasmonically Absorbing Gold Nanofluids, Sujan Shrestha, Luat T. Vuong, Jorge Luis Dominguez-Juarez
Light-Induced Electrohydrodynamic Instability In Plasmonically Absorbing Gold Nanofluids, Sujan Shrestha, Luat T. Vuong, Jorge Luis Dominguez-Juarez
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Plasmonically absorbing nanofluids exhibit light-induced electrokinetics. We measure an electrical response to the light-induced Rayleigh-BĂ©nard-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.