Advances in thermal energy storage: Fundamentals and applications

HM Ali, T Rehman, M Arıcı, Z Said, B Duraković… - Progress in Energy and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Thermal energy storage (TES) is increasingly important due to the demand-supply
challenge caused by the intermittency of renewable energy and waste heat dissipation to …

Phase change materials for life science applications

M Zare, KS Mikkonen - Advanced Functional Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Phase change materials (PCMs) are a class of thermo‐responsive materials that can be
utilized to trigger a phase transition which gives them thermal energy storage capacity. Any …

Investigation and optimization of solidification performance of a triplex-tube latent heat thermal energy storage system by rotational mechanism

X Huang, F Li, T Xiao, J Guo, F Wang, X Gao, X Yang… - Applied Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
In this paper, the rotation mechanism is applied to a triplex-tube latent heat thermal energy
storage system for the first time. Numerical simulation is used to study the effect of rotation …

Optimization of melting performance of a heat storage tank under rotation conditions: Based on taguchi design and response surface method

X Huang, F Li, Y Li, X Meng, X Yang, B Sundén - Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
The melting performance of a rotating triplex-tube latent heat thermal energy storage unit is
studied by numerical simulation method. The Taguchi design and response surface method …

A brief review on different hybrid methods of enhancement within latent heat storage systems

A Khademi, K Shank, SAA Mehrjardi, S Tiari… - Journal of Energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
Thermal energy storage (TES) occurs by changing the internal energy of materials in the
form of sensible heat, latent heat, and thermo-chemical heat or a combination thereof. Latent …

[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 …

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 …

Triboelectric nanogenerators for smart agriculture

S Dai, X Li, C Jiang, J Ping, Y Ying - InfoMat, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Rapid iterations of sensing, energy, and communication technologies transform traditional
agriculture into standardized, intensive, and smart modern agriculture. However, the energy …

Ultrahigh thermal conductive polymer composites by the 3D printing induced vertical alignment of carbon fiber

Z Zhang, M Li, Y Wang, W Dai, L Li, Y Chen… - Journal of Materials …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
As the power density increases in electronic devices, requirements for high-performance
thermal interface materials that can efficiently bridge the heat transport channel between the …

An in-depth study on melting performance of latent heat thermal energy storage system under rotation mechanism by fluctuating heat source

X Huang, F Li, Z Li, X Yang, MJ Li - Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) is a reliable and efficient means of converting
solar energy into electricity. The challenges brought about by the unpredictable nature of …