Energy applications of magnetocaloric materials

A Kitanovski - Advanced Energy Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The need for energy‐efficient and environmentally friendly refrigeration, heat pum**, air
conditioning, and thermal energy harvesting systems is currently more urgent than ever …

Emerging radiative materials and prospective applications of radiative sky cooling-A review

AS Farooq, P Zhang, Y Gao, R Gulfam - Renewable and Sustainable …, 2021 - Elsevier
The enhanced cooling performance and the reduced operational cost of the integrated
radiative sky coolers are essentially necessitated in a wide range of applications, such as …

Deep-subwavelength 2D periodic surface nanostructures on diamond by double-pulse femtosecond laser irradiation

M Mastellone, A Bellucci, M Girolami, V Serpente… - Nano Letters, 2021 - ACS Publications
Two-dimensional laser-induced periodic surface structures with a deep-subwavelength
periodicity (80 nm≈ λ/10) are obtained for the first time on diamond surfaces. The distinctive …

Enhancing thermoelectric output power via radiative cooling with nanoporous alumina

Z Zhan, M ElKabbash, Z Li, X Li, J Zhang, J Rutledge… - Nano Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
In this work, we demonstrate an enhanced thermoelectric output power using nanoporous
alumina grown on aluminum (Al) surfaces. The improved power is due to enhanced thermal …

Progress toward high power output in thermionic energy converters

MF Campbell, TJ Celenza, F Schmitt… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Thermionic energy converters are solid‐state heat engines that have the potential to
produce electricity with efficiencies of over 30% and area‐specific power densities of 100 …

Super-performance photothermal conversion of 3D macrostructure graphene-CuFeSe2 aerogel contributes to durable and fast clean-up of highly viscous crude oil in …

A Sun, X Hou, X Hu - Nano Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
Collecting, cleaning and recycling oil from oil spills, especially highly viscous crude oil, are
global challenges. Inspired by the solar energy-motivated viscosity-break, a 3D …

An extensive thermo-economic evaluation and optimization of an integrated system empowered by solar-wind-ocean energy converter for electricity generation–Case …

E Assareh, M Assareh, SM Alirahmi… - Thermal Science and …, 2021 - Elsevier
In parallel with efforts to shift human societies' reliance from fossil fuel to renewable
resources, in this paper, three green-based energy generation configurations were …

LIPSS applied to wide bandgap semiconductors and dielectrics: Assessment and future perspectives

M Mastellone, ML Pace, M Curcio, N Caggiano… - Materials, 2022 - mdpi.com
With the aim of presenting the processes governing the Laser-Induced Periodic Surface
Structures (LIPSS), its main theoretical models have been reported. More emphasis is given …

A three‐terminal hybrid thermionic‐photovoltaic energy converter

A Bellucci, P García‐Linares, A Martí… - Advanced Energy …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Hybrid thermionic‐photovoltaics (TIPV) are solid‐state thermal‐to‐electric energy converters
that rely on the non‐isothermal transport of photons and electrons through a vacuum gap. In …

Low-grade thermal energy harvesting and self-powered sensing based on thermogalvanic hydrogels

J Zhang, C Bai, Z Wang, X Liu, X Li, X Cui - Micromachines, 2023 - mdpi.com
Thermoelectric cells (TEC) directly convert heat into electricity via the Seebeck effect. Known
as one TEC, thermogalvanic hydrogels are promising for harvesting low-grade thermal …