Phase change materials for building construction: An overview of nano-/micro-encapsulation

Phase change materials for smart textiles – An overview

Phase change materials (PCM) take advantage of latent heat that can be stored or released from a material over a narrow temperature range. PCM possesses the ability to change their state with a certain temperature range. These materials absorb energy during the heating process as phase change takes place and release energy to the environment in the phase change range during a reverse cooling pr...

Nano-Encapsulated Smart Tunable Phase Change Materials

Three Dimensional Micro/Nano-structure Fabrication of Phase-change Film

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, 1 Engineering Drive 3, Singapore 117576 2 Data Storage Institute, DSI Building, 5 Engineering Drive 1, Singapore 117608 3 Nanoscience & Nanotechnology Initiative, National University of Singapore, 2 Engineering Drive 3, Singapore 117576 4 Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore, 2...

Effect of Using Nano Encapsulated Phase Change Material on Thermal Performance of Micro Heat Sink

The aim of this paper is to enhance thermal performance of a microchannel heat sink by using nanoencapsulated phase change material (NEPCM) slurry as a cooling fluid instead of pure fluid. A threedimensional model of a circular channel using water slurry of NEPCM was developed. The results show a significant reduction in the mean fluid temperature along the channel and heat sink wall temperatu...

An overview of scanning near-field optical microscopy in characterization of nano-materials

Scanning Near-Field Optical Microscopy (SNOM) is a member of scanning probe microscopes (SPMs) family which enables nanostructure investigation of the surfaces on a wide range of materials. In fact, SNOM combines the SPM technology to the optical microscopy and in this way provide a powerful tool to study nano-structures with very high spatial resolution. In this paper, a qualified overview of ...