Facile preparation and adjustable thermal property of stearic acid-graphene oxide composite as shape-stabilized phase change material

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 215-216, Issue , 2013, Pages 819-826

  Li, Benxia ^a   Liu, Tongxuan ^a   Hu, Luyang ^a   Wang, Yanfen ^a   Nie, Shibin ^a  

^a ANHUI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Graphene oxide; Nanocomposite; Phase change materials; Stearic acid; Thermal energy storage

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARY ACTION; CARBON COMPOSITES; CONFINEMENT EFFECTS; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETERS; ELECTRONIC MICROSCOPES; FACILE PREPARATION; FOURIER; FREEZING POINT; GRAPHENE OXIDES; INTERFACIAL INTERACTION; INTERLAYER SPACES; MASS RATIO; MELTING LATENT HEATS; OXIDE COMPOSITES; PHASE CHANGE; PHASE CHANGE TEMPERATURE; SHAPE STABILIZED PHASE CHANGE MATERIAL; SHAPE-STABILIZED; THERMAL BEHAVIORS; THERMAL STORAGE; X RAY DIFFRACTOMETERS;

COMPOSITE FILMS; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; HEAT STORAGE; HYBRID MATERIALS; NANOCOMPOSITES; PASSIVE SOLAR BUILDINGS; PHASE CHANGE MATERIALS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; STEARIC ACID; THERMAL ENERGY; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS;

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 84870849486     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2012.11.077     Document Type: Article

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