Smart Firefighters PPE: Impact of Phase Change Materials
Applied Sciences, 2023 Considering the high level of heat and flame exposure firefighters encounter while performing their work activities, personal protective equipment (PPE) is of the utmost importance to enhance their safety.
Gilda Santos +9 more
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Spin Glass Behavior in Amorphous Cr2Ge2Te6 Phase‐Change Alloy
Advanced Science, 2023 The layered crystal structure of Cr2Ge2Te6 shows ferromagnetic ordering at the two‐dimensional limit, which holds promise for spintronic applications.
Xiaozhe Wang +10 more
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Broadband tunable absorption based on phase change materials
Results in Physics, 2021 Tunable absorbers have been the subject of many studies in recent years. However, broadband tunable absorbers, which are promising in many applications such as photovoltaic and daytime radiative cooling systems, have not been extensively explored.
Biyuan Wu, Mingjun Wang, Xiaohu Wu
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Transitional Phenomena on Phase Change Materials
EPJ Web of Conferences, 2014 One of the most significant problem with technology development is transferring of large heat fluxes, which requires constant heat transfer temperature (in the specified temperature range).
Wójcik Tadeusz M. +3 more
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Phase Change Material Used for Masonry Joints: Numerical Simulation and Scale Test
Proceedings, 2019 In order to effectively improve the thermal performance of the thermal insulation masonry wall, the thermal bridge effect of the grey joint on the heat transfer of the wall structure was studied.
Wei Jiang, Dan Liu, Yong Yuan
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A numerical investigation of heat transfer in phase change materials (PCMs) embedded in porous metals [PDF]
, 2011 The effects of metal foams on heat transfer enhancement in Phase Change Materials (PCMs) are investigated. The numerical investigation is based on the two-equation non-equilibrium heat transfer model, in which the coupled heat conduction and natural ...
Zhao, Changying +5 more
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Mechanical characterization at nanometric scale for heterogeneous graphite-salt phase change materials with a statistical approach [PDF]
, 2012 Instrumented indentation technique; Statistical method; Heterogeneous materials; Hardness; Young's modulus; Phase change materialsA statistical indentation analysis of a series of phase change graphite–salt composite materials ...
Palomo, Elena +13 more
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Polariton nanophotonics using phase-change materials
Nature Communications, 2019 Here, the authors experimentally demonstrate a platform for tunable polariton refractive and meta-optics based on hexagonal boron nitride and phase change Ge3Sb2Te6.
Kundan Chaudhary +16 more
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Advances in phase change building materials: An overview
Nanotechnology Reviews, 2023 Efficient and sustainable thermal management of buildings is critical since the building sector is considered as the largest energy contributor contributing around 40% of the total energy consumption which is responsible for about 38% of greenhouse gas ...
Sivanathan Amende +3 more
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Heat transfer enhancement for thermal energy storage using metal foams embedded within phase change materials (PCMs) [PDF]
, 2010 In this paper the experimental investigation on the solid/liquid phase change (melting and solidification) processes have been carried out. Paraffin wax RT58 is used as phase change material (PCM), in which metal foams are embedded to enhance the heat ...
Zhao, Changying +5 more
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