An organic phase change material (PCM) possesses the ability to absorb and release large
quantity of latent heat during a phase change process over a certain temperature range. The …

Hollow silica is a special type of novel inorganic material with one or more cavities inside. In
addition to the excellent properties as with its solid counterparts, hollow silica exhibits …

ABSTRACT A novel method of microencapsulation for inorganic salt hydrates as phase‐
change material (PCM), which is essential for their broad application, was pursued by …

A new binary system of SiO2–CaO nanospheres has been successfully prepared by sol–gel
method in W/O emulsion. Tetraethyl orthosilicate (TEOS) and calcium nitrate tetrahydrate …

This short communication reports our recent work on the synthesis and characterisation of
microcapsules of phase change materials using silica as the shell material through a one …

Porous hollow silica spheres were prepared by using polystyrene–methyl acrylic acid latex
as a template and cetyltrimethylammonium bromide as a wall structure-directing agent …

The present work describes a method for preparation of Hollow Silica Aerogel Microspheres
(HSAMs) and Granular Silica Aerogel Microparticles (GSAMs) for drug delivery, from rice …

Hollow silica spheres have been successfully fabricated by means of a miniemulsion
technique, in which miniemulsion droplets of tetraethoxysilane (TEOS) and octane were …

We have developed a microfluidic method to produce monodisperse, size-controllable silica
microspheres via hydrolysis and polymerization of TEOS at the interface of water-in-oil …

In this study, hollow mesoporous silica nanoparticles (HMSNs) were synthesized using the
sol-gel/emulsion approach and its potential application in drug delivery was assessed. The …