Azobenzene-based solar thermal fuels: design, properties, and applications

L Dong, Y Feng, L Wang, W Feng - Chemical Society Reviews, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Development of renewable energy technologies has been a significant area of research
amongst scientists with the aim of attaining a sustainable world society. Solar thermal fuels …

Status and challenges for molecular solar thermal energy storage system based devices

Z Wang, H Hölzel, K Moth-Poulsen - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Molecular solar thermal energy storage systems (MOST) offer emission-free energy storage
where solar power is stored via valence isomerization in molecular photoswitches. These …

Photon energy storage in strained cyclic hydrazones: emerging molecular solar thermal energy storage compounds

Q Qiu, S Yang, MA Gerkman, H Fu… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The generally small Gibbs free energy difference between the Z and E isomers of hydrazone
photoswitches has so far precluded their use in photon energy storing applications. Here …

Multichromophoric photoswitches for solar energy storage: from azobenzene to norbornadiene, and MOST things in between

RJ Salthouse, K Moth-Poulsen - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
The ever-increasing global demands for energy supply and storage have led to numerous
research efforts into finding and develo** renewable energy technologies. Molecular solar …

Azobenzene-containing polymer for solar thermal energy storage and release: Advances, challenges, and opportunities

X Xu, J Feng, WY Li, G Wang, W Feng, H Yu - Progress in Polymer Science, 2024 - Elsevier
Molecular solar thermal (MOST) fuels have attracted enormous research enthusiasm in solar
energy conversion and storage, which can generate high-energy isomers upon harvesting …

Review on synthesis and properties of high-energy-density liquid fuels: Hydrocarbons, nanofluids and energetic ionic liquids

X Zhang, L Pan, L Wang, JJ Zou - Chemical Engineering Science, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract High-energy-density (HED) liquid fuels are critical for volume-limited aerospace
vehicles to extend the flight range and increase the payload, and can be used as an …

Engineering of norbornadiene/quadricyclane photoswitches for molecular solar thermal energy storage applications

J Orrego-Hernández, A Dreos… - Accounts of Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Renewable energy resources are mostly intermittent and not evenly distributed
geographically; for this reason, the development of new technologies for energy storage is in …

Photochemical phase transitions enable coharvesting of photon energy and ambient heat for energetic molecular solar thermal batteries that upgrade thermal energy

ZY Zhang, Y He, Z Wang, J Xu, M **e… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Discovering physicochemical principles for simultaneous harvesting of multiform energy
from the environment will advance current sustainable energy technologies. Here we …

Triplet–triplet annihilation mediated photon upconversion solar energy systems

L Naimovičius, P Bharmoria… - Materials chemistry …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Solar energy harvesting is among the best solutions for a global transition toward carbon-
neutral energy technologies. The existing solar energy harvesting technologies like …

Templated assembly of photoswitches significantly increases the energy-storage capacity of solar thermal fuels

TJ Kucharski, N Ferralis, AM Kolpak, JO Zheng… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Large-scale utilization of solar-energy resources will require considerable advances in
energy-storage technologies to meet ever-increasing global energy demands. Other than …