Nano-engineered pathways for advanced thermal energy storage systems

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Author(s)

Alagumalai, Avinash

Yang, Liu

Ding, Yulong

Marshall, Jeffrey S

Mesgarpour, Mehrdad

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Journal Article

Abstract

Nearly half of the global energy consumption goes toward the heating and cooling of buildings and processes. This quantity could be considerably reduced through the addition of advanced thermal energy storage systems. One emerging pathway for thermal energy storage is through nano-engineered phase change materials, which have very high energy densities and enable several degrees of design freedom in selecting their composition and morphology. Although the literature has indicated that these advanced materials provide a clear thermodynamic boost for thermal energy storage, they are subject to much more complex multiscale governing phenomena (e.g., non-uniform temperatures across the medium). This review highlights the most promising configurations that have been proposed for improved heat transfer along with the critical future needs in this field. We conclude that significant effort is still required to move up the technological readiness scale and to create commercially viable novel nano-engineered phase change systems.

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Date Issued

2022-08

Date Acceptance

2020-08-01

Citation

Cell Reports Physical Science, 2022, 3 (8), pp.101007-101007

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/99464

URL

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666386422002983?via%3Dihub

DOI

https://www.dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.xcrp.2022.101007

ISSN

2666-3864

Publisher

Elsevier BV

Start Page

101007

End Page

101007

Journal / Book Title

Cell Reports Physical Science

Volume

3

Issue

8

Copyright Statement

© 2022 The Author(s).
This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Sponsor

The Royal Society

Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC)

Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (E

Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC)

Identifier

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666386422002983?via%3Dihub

Grant Number

AQ150077

EP/R045518/1

UOB107926

EP/T03338X/1

Publication Status

Published

Article Number

101007

Date Publish Online

2022-08-17