Microencapsulated n-alkane eutectics in polystyrene for solar thermal applications

•MEEMs are produced using PS as a shell and the EMs as cores.•The MEEMs prepared are spherical in shape and at micro/nano sizes with narrow PSD.•The MEEMs had melting temperature and enthalpy between 20 and 35.9 °C.•The MEEMs showed good latent heat capacity between 61.2 and 46.1 J/g.•The MEEMs prep...

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