Composite nanofibrous sheets of fatty acids and polymers as thermo-regulating enclosures

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 157, Issue , 2016, Pages 676-685

  Gupta, Ruchika ^a   Kedia, Soumya ^a   Saurakhiya, Neelam ^a   Sharma, Atul ^a   Ranjan, Amit ^a  

^a RAJIV GANDHI INSTITUTE OF PETROLEUM TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Composite Nanofibers; Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC); Electrospinning; Fatty acids; Phase change materials (PCMs); Polyvinyl Alcohol (PVA)

Indexed keywords

BINARY MIXTURES; BINS; CALORIMETERS; CALORIMETRY; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; DROPS; ELECTROSPINNING; ENCLOSURES; EUTECTICS; MIXTURES; NANOFIBERS; PHASE CHANGE MATERIALS; PHASE DIAGRAMS; POLYMERS; POLYVINYL ALCOHOLS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPINNING (FIBERS); TENSILE TESTING; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

BULK PHASE DIAGRAMS; COMPOSITE NANOFIBERS; EUTECTIC TEMPERATURE; FATTY ACID MIXTURE; MONITORING THE TEMPERATURES; POLY (VINYL ALCOHOL) (PVA); REGULAR SOLUTION MODEL; SPINNING SOLUTION;

FATTY ACIDS;

EID: 84984801466     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2016.07.033     Document Type: Article

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