Design and fabrication of bifunctional microcapsules for solar thermal energy storage and solar photocatalysis by encapsulating paraffin phase change material into cuprous oxide

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 168, Issue , 2017, Pages 146-164

  Gao, Fengxia ^a   Wang, Xiaodong ^a   Wu, Dezhen ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Bifunctional microcapsules; Cu2O shell; Gas sensing effectiveness; Phase change materials; Solar photocatalysis; Solar thermal energy storage

Indexed keywords

CATALYSIS; EMULSIFICATION; ENCAPSULATION; ENERGY STORAGE; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; GAS SENSING ELECTRODES; HEAT STORAGE; MICROSTRUCTURE; PARAFFINS; PHOTOCATALYSIS; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SELF ASSEMBLY; SHELLS (STRUCTURES); SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR HEATING; STORAGE (MATERIALS); THERMAL ENERGY; THERMOANALYSIS;

ENERGY STORAGE EFFICIENCIES; GAS SENSING; MICROCAPSULES; PARAFFIN PHASE-CHANGE MATERIAL; PHOTO-THERMAL CONVERSIONS; PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITIES; SOLAR PHOTOCATALYSIS; SOLAR THERMAL ENERGY;

PHASE CHANGE MATERIALS;

EID: 85018473969     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2017.04.026     Document Type: Article

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