Advanced phase change composite by thermally annealed defect-free graphene for thermal energy storage

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 17, 2014, Pages 15262-15271

  Xin, Guoqing ^a   Sun, Hongtao ^a   Scott, Spencer Michael ^a   Yao, Tiankai ^a   Lu, Fengyuan ^a   Shao, Dali ^a   Hu, Tao ^a   Wang, Gongkai ^a   Ran, Guang ^b   Lian, Jie ^a  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

graphene; phase change enthalpy; phase change materials; thermal conductivity; thermal energy storage

Indexed keywords

ADDITIVES; ANNEALING; DEFECTS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; GRAPHENE; HEAT STORAGE; HEAT TRANSFER; PHASE CHANGE MATERIALS; STORAGE (MATERIALS); STORAGE MANAGEMENT; THERMAL ENERGY;

HEAT TRANSFER CAPABILITY; HIGH THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; HIGH-TEMPERATURE ANNEALING; LATENT HEAT ENERGY STORAGE; LOW THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; OXYGEN FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; PHASE CHANGE ENTHALPY; TRANSIENT TEMPERATURE RESPONSE;

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 84907842310     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am503619a     Document Type: Article

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