Spatial confinement in nanoporous media affects the structure, thermodynamics and mobility
of molecular soft matter often markedly. This article reviews thermodynamic equilibrium …

Medium-and long-chain alkanes and their mixtures possess a remarkable physical property–
they form intermediate structured phases between their isotropic liquid phase and their fully …

A nanoflaky nickel-hydroxide-decorated phase-change microcapsule system [designated as
Ni (OH) 2-SiO 2-MEPCM] was designed as a smart electrode material for supercapacitor …

Although the rotator phases of the normal alkanes have been studied for the greater part of
the century, it is only in the last two decades that the experimental and theoretical …

How polymers crystallize can greatly affect their thermal and mechanical properties, which
influence the practical applications of these materials. Polymeric materials, such as block …

Thermoporometry is a relatively new method of characterising porous properties of
nanostructured materials based on observation of solid–liquid phase transitions of materials …

Disklike molecules with aromatic cores spontaneously stack up in linear columns with high,
one-dimensional charge carrier mobilities along the columnar axes, making them prominent …

The n-alkanes C 16 H 34, C 17 H 36, C 19 H 40, and C 25 H 52 have been imbibed and
solidified in mesoporous, crystalline silicon with a mean pore diameter of 10 nm. The …

Capillary filling dynamics of liquid n-tetracosane (nC 24 H 50) in a network of cylindrical
pores with 7 and 10 nm mean diameter in monolithic silica glass (Vycor) exhibit an abrupt …

This paper reports a novel high-performance phase change composite (PCC) featuring
anisotropic high heat conduction ability and dimensionally stable properties for the hot-side …