Molten salts are important thermal conductors used in molten salt reactors and solar
applications. To use molten salts safely, accurate knowledge of their thermophysical …

Ionic solids and melts are compounds in which the interactions are dominated by
electrostatic effects. However, the polarization of the ions also plays an important role in …

Molten salts have attracted interest as potential heat carriers and/or fuel solvents in the
development of new Gen IV nuclear reactor designs, high-temperature batteries, and …

Phase change materials (PCMs) based thermal energy storage techniques are promising to
bridge the gap between thermal energy demand and intermittent supply. However, the low …

Written by two specialists with over twenty-five years of experience in the field, this valuable
text presents a wide range of topics within the growing field of nonequilibrium molecular …

In concentrated solar power (CSP) applications, the thermal energy storage (TES) system
with molten salt is widely utilized. However, molten salts usually suffer from relatively low …

Molten salts are attractive candidate materials used for effective thermal energy transfer and
storage, which can be applied in the concentrating solar power (CSP) system at high …

Provides hands-on knowledge enabling students of and researchers in chemistry, biology,
and engineering to perform molecular simulations This book introduces the fundamentals of …

It is urgently needed to improve the thermal properties of molten salt based phase change
materials used for effective storage and utilization of solar energy. In this paper, the physical …

A companion article has been published: Computation of methodology-independent single-
ion solvation properties from molecular simulations. III. Correction terms for the solvation free …