A review of metallic materials for latent heat thermal energy storage: Thermophysical properties, applications, and challenges

SC Costa, M Kenisarin - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Phase change materials provide desirable characteristics for latent heat thermal energy
storage by keeping the high energy density and quasi isothermal working temperature …

A review and prospective of fin design to improve heat transfer performance of latent thermal energy storage

S Zhang, S Mancin, L Pu - Journal of Energy Storage, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Latent Thermal Energy Storage (TES) has been widely recognized in the academic
community and regarded as one of the most promising technologies for heat storage. As one …

Liquid metal composites

S Chen, HZ Wang, RQ Zhao, W Rao, J Liu - Matter, 2020 - cell.com
Liquid metal (LM) with high electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity, excellent
biocompatibility, and extraordinary fluidity has emerged as a promising class of functional …

Critical review on the physical properties of gallium-based liquid metals and selected pathways for their alteration

S Handschuh-Wang, FJ Stadler… - The Journal of Physical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Gallium-based liquid metals have gained plenty of attention in the scientific community due
to their extraordinary properties. The most intriguing properties of liquid metals are high …

Phase transition science and engineering of gallium-based liquid metal

H Wang, S Chen, X Zhu, B Yuan, X Sun, J Zhang… - Matter, 2022 - cell.com
Phase transition between liquid and solid is a ubiquitous phenomenon in nature and has
been used widely in scientific and industrial communities. Most metals have high melting …

[HTML][HTML] Liquid metal (LM) and its composites in thermal management

S Wang, X Zhao, J Luo, L Zhuang, D Zou - Composites Part A: Applied …, 2022 - Elsevier
Liquid metal (LM), a new functional metal material, has drawn a lot of interest since it can
stay in the liquid phase at ambient temperature or below. Furthermore, advanced heat …

Exploring mushy zone constant in enthalpy-porosity methodology for accurate modeling convection-diffusion solid-liquid phase change of calcium chloride …

WB Ye, M Arıcı - International Communications in Heat and Mass …, 2024 - Elsevier
Mushy zone constant (A m) is a crucial parameter in the momentum source term of enthalpy-
porosity technique for modeling convection-diffusion solid-liquid phase change. Literature …

Metal-based phase change material (PCM) microcapsules/nanocapsules: Fabrication, thermophysical characterization and application

S Wang, K Lei, Z Wang, H Wang, D Zou - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2022 - Elsevier
Thermal energy storage by solid-liquid phase change is one of the main energy storage
methods, and metal-based phase change material (PCM) have attracted more and more …

Recent development on heat transfer and various applications of phase-change materials

L Yang, X Jin, Y Zhang, K Du - Journal of cleaner production, 2021 - Elsevier
Thermal energy storage and phase change materials (PCMs) have become one of the most
important research subjects in recent years. The present paper first introduces the …

[HTML][HTML] Performance enhancement of phase change materials in triplex-tube latent heat energy storage system using novel fin configurations

P Yan, W Fan, Y Yang, H Ding, A Arshad, C Wen - Applied Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Phase change material (PCM) has promising applications as an energy storage material in
thermal energy storage (TES) systems. However, the low thermal conductivity of PCM limits …