[HTML][HTML] Overview of surface engineering technology to improve the energy efficiency in concentrated solar power (CSP) plants

S Dosta, L Betancor, C Barreneche - Solar Energy Materials and Solar …, 2024 - Elsevier
Thermal energy storage (TES) technologies have been selected as key enabling
technologies to mitigate climate change and to assess renewable energy deployment …

High‐Entropy Photothermal Materials

CY He, Y Li, ZH Zhou, BH Liu, XH Gao - Advanced Materials, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract High‐entropy (HE) materials, celebrated for their extraordinary chemical and
physical properties, have garnered increasing attention for their broad applications across …

High-performance janus solar evaporator for water purification with broad spectrum absorption and ultralow heat loss

L Hou, N Wang, LJ Yu, J Liu, S Zhang, Z Cui… - ACS Energy …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Interfacial solar vapor generation offers a promising zero-CO2-consuming energy
conversion technology for the production of renewable clean water. The key for boosting …

Efficient and robust molecular solar thermal fabric for personal thermal management

L Fei, ZY Zhang, Y Tan, T Ye, D Dong, Y Yin… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Molecular solar thermal (MOST) materials, which can efficiently capture solar energy and
release it as heat on demand, are promising candidates for future personal thermal …

Rapid large-capacity storage of renewable solar-/electro-thermal energy within phase-change materials by bioinspired multifunctional meshes

X Li, Y Liu, Y Xu, T Hu, B Fu, C Song, W Shang, P Tao… - Matter, 2023 - cell.com
Storing solar-/electro-thermal energy within organic or inorganic phase-change materials
(PCMs) is an attractive way to provide stable renewable heating. Herein, we report a facile …

Scalable and high throughput photothermal water disinfection with negligible CO2 footprint utilizing nanostructured carbon coatings

A Sah, AK Mandal, S Tiwari, S Mukherji… - npj Clean Water, 2023 - nature.com
Water heating and disinfection with reduced energy and CO2 footprint demands new and
efficient materials for solar-thermal conversion technologies. Here, we demonstrate …

Liquid-metal-microdroplets-incorporated ultrasoft dielectric gel toward stretchable and healable waste-energy-harvesting devices

P Bhuyan, Y Wei, M Choe, D Cho, S Lee, S Park - Nano Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
In this work, an ultrasoft, healable, and portable device is designed, which is capable of
harnessing lost energy from AC-powered gadgets. This soft device consisting of an ultrasoft …

Robust elastic wave transport in zone-folding induced topological hierarchical metamaterials

A Ni, Z Shi - International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 2023 - Elsevier
The topologically protected elastic wave transport in hierarchical metamaterials for the in-
plane mode and out-of-plane mode is investigated in this work. First of all, the influence of …

Cobalt-rich spinel oxide-based wide angular spectral selective absorber coatings for solar thermal conversion applications

KKP Kumar, S Mallick, S Sakthivel - Renewable Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Solar energy conversion technologies attain enormous attention to create more efficient
energy production sources to meet the current world's demand. The solar thermal …

Scalable nano-architecture for stable near-blackbody solar absorption at high temperatures

Y Guo, K Tsuda, S Hosseini, Y Murakami… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Light trap** enhancement by nanostructures is ubiquitous in engineering applications, for
example, in improving highly-efficient concentrating solar thermal (CST) technologies …