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I read an article today about some research being done where nanofluids are used in a watercooling loop in order to improve performance.

The term nanofluid refers to a liquid that has metallic nano particles suspended throughout. These particles are usually less than 50nm in size.

This particular article uses water and ethylene glycol (alcohol) as the continuous phase fluid, and Al2O3 as the nano particle.

The research is still ongoing, but the preliminary test results look very very nice. I have attached a graph and chart that compares nanofluids at various concentrations and various flow rates. It seems that thermal performance increases linearly with concentration of nano-particles.