Within the thermal energy capture and/or storage systems currently available or investigated, PCMs are the sole latent heat stores. Despite their low thermal conductivity, that limits charging and discharging times, the higher energy storage capacity per unit weight in comparison with sensible...

An analytical overview of experimental results about the heat transfer capabilities of nanofluids is presented, using widely scattered available information from diverse literature sources. It is shown that, despite the large number of publications available about this issue, only few studies...