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Ge Zhang1, Volodymyr B Koman1, Tafsia Shikdar1
1Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.
Small (Weinheim an Der Bergstrasse, Germany)
|March 6, 2021
Abstract:
Carbon nanomaterials have extraordinary thermal properties, such as high conductivity and stability. Nanocarbon combined with phase change materials (PCMs) can yield exceptionally high thermal effusivity composites optimal for thermal energy harvesting. The progress in synthesis and processing of high effusivity materials, and their application in resonant energy harvesting from temperature variations is reviewed.
