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 …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

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 …

Optically controlled solid-to-liquid phase transition materials based on azo compounds

J Hu, T Song, MM Yu, H Yu - Chemistry of Materials, 2023 - ACS Publications
Phase transition materials can be utilized in a variety of functionalization scenarios,
benefiting from the photoinduced changes in their physicochemical properties. Among them …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

[HTML][HTML] Hybrid solar energy device for simultaneous electric power generation and molecular solar thermal energy storage

Z Wang, H Hölzel, L Fernandez, AS Aslam, P Baronas… - Joule, 2024 - cell.com
The performance of photovoltaic (PV) solar cells can be adversely affected by the heat
generated from solar irradiation. To address this issue, a hybrid device featuring a solar …

An Emerging Energy Technology: Self‐Uninterrupted Electricity Power Harvesting from the Sun and Cold Space

S Zhang, Z Wu, Z Liu, Z Hu - Advanced Energy Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Harvesting sustainable energy from the sun and cold space to uninterruptedly generate
green electricity provides a potential alternative way to solve the unfolding energy crisis and …

High-performance integrated chip-level thermoelectric device for power generation and microflow detection

Z Liu, S Zhang, Z Wu, E Mu, H Wei, Y Liu, H Shi, Z Hu - Nano Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Miniaturized thermoelectric devices (TED) possess great benefits in energy converting and
sensing. By employing improved microfabrication technology, we succeed made an ultra …

Tunable energy release in a reversible molecular solar thermal system

E Franz, C Stumm, F Waidhas, M Bertram, M Jevric… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Molecular solar thermal (MOST) systems open application fields for solar energy conversion
as they combine conversion, storage, and release in one single molecule. For energy …

Power generation on chips: Harvesting energy from the sun and cold space

S Zhang, Z Wu, Z Liu, E Mu, Y Liu, Y Lv… - Advanced Materials …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Environmental energy source is abundant, inexhaustible, ubiquitous, and free. However,
harvesting thermal energy from the environment to generate uninterrupted electricity is still …