Shape-Stable Hybrid Emulsion Gel with Sodium Acetate Trihydrate and Paraffin Wax for Efficient Solar Energy Storage and Building Thermal Management.

Organic-inorganic composite phase change materials (PCMs) are promising in the fields of solar energy storage and building thermal management. However, combining inorganic with organic PCMs meets a great challenge. In the current work, a shape-stable hybrid emulsion gel (EGel/GO) is developed via Pickering emulsion polymerization, which seamlessly combines sodium acetate trihydrate (SAT) in the water phase with paraffin wax (PW) in the oil phase.