Form-stable phase change composites: Preparation, performance, and applications for thermal energy conversion, storage and management

MQ Wu, S Wu, YF Cai, RZ Wang, TX Li - Energy Storage Materials, 2021 - Elsevier
Phase change materials (PCMs) have been extensively characterized as promising energy
materials for thermal energy storage and thermal management to address the mismatch …

Recent advances on thermal conductivity enhancement of phase change materials for energy storage system: a review

ZA Qureshi, HM Ali, S Khushnood - International Journal of Heat and Mass …, 2018 - Elsevier
Phase change materials (PCMs) possess very high heat storage capacity and are capable
of maintaining a constant temperature during phase change, which makes them most …

Engineering the thermal conductivity of functional phase‐change materials for heat energy conversion, storage, and utilization

K Yuan, J Shi, W Aftab, M Qin, A Usman… - Advanced Functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Thermal energy storage technologies based on phase‐change materials (PCMs) have
received tremendous attention in recent years. These materials are capable of reversibly …

Nano-enhanced organic form stable PCMs for medium temperature solar thermal energy harvesting: Recent progresses, challenges, and opportunities

J Paul, AK Pandey, YN Mishra, Z Said… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
Solar energy is an easily accessible and promising renewable energy source that could
solve the current energy crisis. Thermal energy storage systems incorporating Phase …

[HTML][HTML] Thermal diodes, regulators, and switches: Physical mechanisms and potential applications

G Wehmeyer, T Yabuki, C Monachon, J Wu… - Applied Physics …, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
Interest in new thermal diodes, regulators, and switches has been rapidly growing because
these components have the potential for rich transport phenomena that cannot be achieved …

A review of the composite phase change materials: Fabrication, characterization, mathematical modeling and application to performance enhancement

P Zhang, X **ao, ZW Ma - Applied Energy, 2016 - Elsevier
Phase change materials (PCMs) are frequently and widely used in latent thermal energy
storage (LTES) system and thermal management (TM) system due to their large latent heats …

Advances in the improvement of thermal-conductivity of phase change material-based lithium-ion battery thermal management systems: An updated review

A Mitra, R Kumar, DK Singh, Z Said - Journal of Energy Storage, 2022 - Elsevier
A battery thermal management system (BTMS) that relies on phase change materials
(PCMs) seems to be a prominent system of cooling for assuring the safety, reliability …

Thermal conductivity enhancement of phase change materials for thermal energy storage: A review

L Liu, D Su, Y Tang, G Fang - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
Thermal energy storage systems have been recognized as one of the most efficient ways to
enhance the energy efficiency and sustainability, and have received a growing attention in …

Review on micro/nano phase change materials for solar thermal applications

L Qiu, Y Ouyang, Y Feng, X Zhang - Renewable Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
Solar energy, which is well–known for its inexhaustible and environmentally friendly
properties, is among the most promising sources of energy. Solar energy is usually collected …

Dynamic tuning of optical absorbers for accelerated solar-thermal energy storage

Z Wang, Z Tong, Q Ye, H Hu, X Nie, C Yan… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Currently, solar-thermal energy storage within phase-change materials relies on adding
high thermal-conductivity fillers to improve the thermal-diffusion-based charging rate, which …