Heat storage using phase changes in paraffin wax is a fundamental technology with great potential to contribute significantly to the energy transition.
The WAX+ project aims to create new heterogeneous hybrid materials in which a highly conductive graphene network is embedded in paraffin to significantly improve the thermal responsiveness of the material. WAX+ involves a collaboration between Eindhoven University of Technology (TUE; Profs. Lyulin, Bobbert, Huinink and Friedrich) and the University of Twente (UT; Prof. Geurts). The project is associated with CCER, the Center for Computational Energy Research. In total three research positions are involved in WAX+ of which
- one is focussed on experimental work synthesizing and characterizing the new hybrid material (TUE),
- one is focussed on molecular dynamics analysis of heat transport at the nano scale (TUE) and
- one is focussed on multiscale modeling and simulation of heat transport on larger scales, up to system size (UT)
An online assessment will be part of the application procedure.
For more information, see the UT-website.
