Fabrication and characterization of electrospun SiO2 nanofibers absorbed with fatty acid eutectics for thermal energy storage/retrieval

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 132, Issue , 2015, Pages 183-190

  Zong, Xue ^a   Cai, Yibing ^a,b   Sun, Guiyan ^a   Zhao, Yong ^c   Huang, Fenglin ^a   Song, Lei ^b   Hu, Yuan ^b   Fong, Hao ^c   Wei, Qufu ^a  

^a JIANGNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c SOUTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MINES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrospun SiO2 nanofibers; Fatty acid eutectics; Form stable PCMs; Thermal energy storage retrieval

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERIZATION; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; ENTHALPY; EUTECTICS; FABRICATION; HEAT STORAGE; MELTING; NANOFIBERS; PHASE CHANGE MATERIALS; SATURATED FATTY ACIDS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOLIDIFICATION; STORAGE (MATERIALS); TEMPERATURE; THERMAL ENERGY;

ABSORPTION CAPACITY; ELECTROSPUNS; EXPERIMENTAL VALUES; FABRICATION AND CHARACTERIZATIONS; FATTY ACID EUTECTICS; FORM-STABLE PHASE CHANGE MATERIALS; MORPHOLOGICAL STRUCTURES; STORAGE AND RETRIEVALS;

PALMITIC ACID;

EID: 84907548905     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2014.08.030     Document Type: Article

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