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[20]. In many industrial applications, the stability of graphene oxide dispersions plays a crucial role for the proper solvent preparation. Therefore, many researchers have done the studies to understand the dispersion behavior and to improve the dispersion stability. Konios et al. [21] prepared GO and reduced graphene oxide (rGO) dispersions with the different solvents and they showed that the GO and rGO samples forms a stable dispersion with the deionized-water, ethylene glycol and N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone (NMP). Taha-Tijerina et al. [22] prepared a dispersion with the deionized-water, ethylene glycol, ethanol and mineral oil and they illustrated that the GO samples forms a strong stable dispersion with the deionized-water and ethylene glycol. Graphene oxide-deionized water nano-fluids are more attractive options because of the formation of fairly strong stable dispersions with graphene oxide in the deionized water and the elimination of toxic solvents such as NMP.The quality of the dispersions including "strong stability" can be represented with some criteria such as zeta potential value, thermal and electrical conductivity, pH, and particle size. Therefore, many studies have been done to analyze the GO dispersion properties. The average particle size and zeta potential value [22] [29] were analyzed without using any systematic analyzing such an experimental design approach. It has been determined that oxidants and pH of the

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In this work, the bismuth telluride (Bi 2 Te 3) nanostructure for thermoelectric applications was successfully synthesised by a new cost-effective chemical solution process. Firstly, the metal solutions of bismuth (III) nitrate pentahydrate and tellurium dioxide were mixed together at room temperature with adjusting the hydrodynamic atmosphere and introduced the sodium hydroxide. After that, different characterisation parameters, such as X-ray diffraction, atomic force microscopy (AFM), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energy dispersive X-ray, and transverse electron microscopy (TEM) were obtained. Then, the average crystalline size of the Bi 2 Te 3 nanostructure was found 23 nm. According to these obtained results, the materials consist of every specimen in nano range dimension in AFM studies. The elemental of Bi and Te were arranged with their quite stoichiometric atomic ratio observed by SEM. Ultimately, the TEM micrographs showed that the powders exhibited an aggregate phenomenon, and the primary crystalline size was about low dimension.