• openAccess   Improved thermal energy storage of nanoencapsulated phase change materials by atomic layer deposition 

      Navarrete Argilés, Nuria; La Zara, Damiano; Goulas, Aristeidis; Valdesueiro, David; Hernandez, Leonor; van Ommen, J. Ruud; Mondragon, Rosa Elsevier (2020-03-31)
      Renewable energy has become of great interest over the past years in order to mitigate Global Warming. One of the actions gaining attention is the enhancement of the thermal energy storage capacity of Concentrated Solar ...
    • openAccess   Improving heat transfer of stabilised thermal oil-based tin nanofluids using biosurfactant and molecular layer deposition 

      Gil Font, Javier; Hatte, Marie-Anne; Bailey, Maximilian; Navarrete Argilés, Nuria; Ventura Espinosa, Jorge; Goulas, Aristeidis; La Zara, Damiano; van Ommen, J. Ruud; Mondragon, Rosa; Hernandez, Leonor Elsevier (2020-09)
      The development of advanced heat transfer fluids (HTF) with enhanced heat transfer properties has been identified as a key target to increase the efficiency of industrial processes. In this work, heat transfer performance ...
    • openAccess   Numerical analysis of mechanical reliability of multi-coated phase change materials 

      Forner Escrig, Josep; Navarrete Argilés, Nuria; Palma Guerrero, Roberto; La Zara, Damiano; Valdesueiro, David; van Ommen, J. Ruud; Hernandez, Leonor; Mondragon, Rosa EDP Sciences (2021)
      Nanoencapsulated phase change materials (nePCMs) are nowadays under research for thermal energy storage purposes. NePCMs are composed of a phase change core surrounded by a shell that confines the core when molten. One of ...