Organic, cross-linking, and shape-stabilized solar thermal energy storage materials: A reversible phase transition driven by broadband visible light

Applied Energy

Volumn 113, Issue , 2014, Pages 59-66

  Wang, Yunming ^a   Tang, Bingtao ^a   Zhang, Shufen ^a  

^a DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Broadband visible light harvesting; Color matching; Cross linking; Light to heat conversion; Shape stabilized phase change materials

Indexed keywords

COLOR MATCHING; HEAT STORAGE; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR RADIATION;

BROADBAND IRRADIATION; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRIC; LIGHT-HARVESTING; PHASE CHANGE TEMPERATURE; REVERSIBLE PHASE TRANSITION; SHAPE STABILIZED PHASE CHANGE MATERIAL; VISIBLE LIGHT ABSORPTION; VISIBLE-LIGHT IRRADIATION;

LIGHT;

IRRADIANCE; PHASE TRANSITION; SOLAR POWER; THERMAL POWER; VISIBLE SPECTRUM;

EID: 84881230340     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2013.07.007     Document Type: Article

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