Preparation and Melting/Freezing Characteristics of Cu/Paraffin Nanofluid as Phase-Change Material (PCM)

By Shuying Wu, Dongsheng Zhu, Xiurong Zhang, Jin Huang. 2010

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An investigation of melting/freezing characteristics of nanoparticle-enhanced phase change materials (2012, background): “Less energy per unit mass of Cu/paraffin is needed for melting because of the lower latent heat of fusion [22].”
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Phase-change heat transfer of single/hybrid nanoparticles-enhanced phase-change materials over a heated horizontal cylinder confined in a square cavity (2017, background): “[14] found that the heating and cooling times declines up to 30.”