Form-stable phase change composites: Preparation, performance, and applications for thermal energy conversion, storage and management

MQ Wu, S Wu, YF Cai, RZ Wang, TX Li - Energy Storage Materials, 2021 - Elsevier
Phase change materials (PCMs) have been extensively characterized as promising energy
materials for thermal energy storage and thermal management to address the mismatch …

A critical review on heat transfer augmentation of phase change materials embedded with porous materials/foams

HM Ali, MM Janjua, U Sajjad, WM Yan - International Journal of Heat and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Phase change material (PCM) is promising media for thermal energy storage owing to its
extensive value of latent heat (140–970 KJ/Kg). However, thermal conductivity of PCMs is …

Technology development and application prospects of organic-based phase change materials: An overview

J Tao, J Luan, Y Liu, D Qu, Z Yan, X Ke - Renewable and Sustainable …, 2022 - Elsevier
Organic-based phase change materials (PCMs) are widely used for energy storage due to
high latent heat and wide phase change temperature range. Nowadays, alkanes, fatty acids …

Inorganic phase change materials in thermal energy storage: A review on perspectives and technological advances in building applications

MF Junaid, Z ur Rehman, M Čekon, J Čurpek… - Energy and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Reutilization of thermal energy according to building demands constitutes an important step
in a low carbon/green campaign. Phase change materials (PCMs) can address these …

Engineering the thermal conductivity of functional phase‐change materials for heat energy conversion, storage, and utilization

K Yuan, J Shi, W Aftab, M Qin, A Usman… - Advanced Functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Thermal energy storage technologies based on phase‐change materials (PCMs) have
received tremendous attention in recent years. These materials are capable of reversibly …

Nanoconfined phase change materials for thermal energy applications

W Aftab, X Huang, W Wu, Z Liang… - Energy & …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Phase change materials (PCMs) have been extensively characterized as constant
temperature latent heat thermal energy storage (TES) materials. Nevertheless, the …

Latent heat thermal energy storage systems with solid–liquid phase change materials: a review

N Zhang, Y Yuan, X Cao, Y Du… - Advanced Engineering …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
This paper provides a review of the solid–liquid phase change materials (PCMs) for latent
heat thermal energy storage (LHTES). The commonly used solid–liquid PCMs and their …

A review of the composite phase change materials: Fabrication, characterization, mathematical modeling and application to performance enhancement

P Zhang, X Xiao, ZW Ma - Applied Energy, 2016 - Elsevier
Phase change materials (PCMs) are frequently and widely used in latent thermal energy
storage (LTES) system and thermal management (TM) system due to their large latent heats …

[HTML][HTML] Reinforcements in multi-scale polymer composites: Processing, properties, and applications

G Mittal, KY Rhee, V Mišković-Stanković… - Composites Part B …, 2018 - Elsevier
Smart and novel materials require the replacement of conventional composites with superior
ones, which requires an advanced class of composites with multi-functionality. Multi-scale …

A novel composite phase change material from lauric acid, nano-Cu and attapulgite: Preparation, characterization and thermal conductivity enhancement

R Wen, X Zhu, C Yang, Z Sun, L Zhang, Y Xu… - Journal of Energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
The utilization of phase change material (PCM) of lauric acid (LA) in thermal energy storage
system is limited by liquid phase leakage and relatively low thermal conductivity. Therefore …