Abstract
Appliances would be more energy efficient if thermal insulations could be developed with apparent thermal conductivity (λ) below 0.01 W/m·K. In an effort to identify candidate materials, λ was measured from 300 to 335 K for unevacuated and evacuated systems of angstrom- and micron-size particles.
Research sponsored by the Office of Building and Community Systems, U.S. Department of Energy, under contract DE-AC05-840R21400 with the Martin Marietta Energy Systems, Inc.
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Copeland, G.L., McElroy, D.L., Graves, R.S., Weaver, F.J., Fine, H.A., Tong, T.W. (1985). Insulations with Low Thermal Conductivity. In: Ashworth, T., Smith, D.R. (eds) Thermal Conductivity 18. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4916-7_36
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