From vegetable oil to phase change material, MSE team synthesizes fatty acid amides for potential thermal storage use

From vegetable oil to phase change material, MSE team synthesizes fatty acid amides for potential thermal storage use

Source: ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng.

MSE professors, Jeffrey Youngblood and Carlos Martinez, and graduate student Daniela Betancourt-Jimenez synthesized a new bio-based Fatty Acid Amides (FAAm) Phase Change Materials (PCM) from vegetable oils. Read their work at the ACS Sustainability Chemistry and Engineering Journal. bit.ly/bio-PCMs