A review on current status and challenges of inorganic phase change materials for thermal energy storage systems

By Shamseldin A. Mohamed, F. Al-Sulaiman, Nasiru I. Ibrahim, Md. Hasan Zahir, Amir Al-Ahmed, R. Saidur, B. Yilbas, Ahmet Z. Sahin. 2017

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Phase Change Materials (PCM) for Solar Energy Usages and Storage: An Overview (2019, background): “The advantages and disadvantages of both organic as well as the inorganic types of materials are listed in Table 1 [67,68].”
Advanced Textiles for Personal Thermal Management and Energy (2020, background): “In reverse, solidification process happens releasing latent heat when temperature of PCMs arrives at the crystallization point as temperature decreases.(86) By absorbing or releasing latent heat, textiles with PCM are capable of providing thermoregulating and temperature buffering effects for human ”
Inorganic Salt Hydrate for Thermal Energy Storage (2017, background): “A number of salt hydrates with large latent heat which can be regarded as PCMs cannot melt congruently [11].”
A comprehensive review on sub-zero temperature cold thermal energy storage materials, technologies, and applications: State of the art and recent developments (2021, methodology): “However, thickening agents could compromise the thermal properties of the storage materials as well [25].”