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Advanced Energy Storage Technologies for Low-Carbon Buildings

A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Building Energy, Physics, Environment, and Systems".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 612

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Yaxuan Xiong

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School of Environment and Energy Engineering, Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Beijing 102616, China
Interests: clean energy utilization; composite phase change materials; building energy efficiency
Prof. Dr. Cancan Zhang

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College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100044, China
Interests: thermal energy storage; heat transfer enhancement; solar energy utilization
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Prof. Dr. Chun Chang

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School of Renewable Energy, Inner Mongolia University of Technology, Ordos 017010, China
Interests: energy storage technology; renewable energy utilization technology
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Currently, various building projects face the serious challenges of significantly reducing operation energy consumption and carbon emissions, as required by the dual-carbon strategy, whilst creating comfortable living environments. Massive and efficient energy storage can effectively improve energy efficiency by energy peak shaving, solving the above problems. However, the integration of energy storage requires a multi-energy supply system, which can present new problems.

This Special Issue aims to showcase the latest advancements in low-cost and low-carbon energy storage materials and relevant systems, the performance of clean energy storage, and multi-energy supply systems integrated with energy storage systems, highlighting their potential to revolutionize building energy consumption and carbon emissions and contribute to more energy-efficient and environmentally friendly buildings.

We invite submissions that explore the design, formulation, innovative application, and latest research progress of various energy storage materials and the integration of energy storage materials with multi-energy supply systems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Development and performance characterization of low-carbon thermal energy storage materials, including sensible heat storage materials, phase-change materials, and thermochemical heat storage materials.
  • Latest review of design, formulation, and performance characterization of low-carbon energy storage materials.
  • Innovative application methods of low-carbon energy storage materials.
  • Theory and methods of energy storage systems integrated with multi-energy supply systems.
  • Innovative manufacturing technologies.
  • Case studies and applications.

Through this Special Issue, we aim to foster multidisciplinary communication among researchers, engineers, and industry professionals. Our goal is to highlight emerging trends, identify research gaps, and provide direction for the reduction in energy consumption and carbon emissions to meet the needs of modern building operations while adhering to the principles of green sustainability.

Prof. Dr. Yaxuan Xiong
Prof. Dr. Cancan Zhang
Prof. Dr. Chun Chang
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Buildings is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • energy storage materials
  • thermal energy storage system
  • energy-efficient materials
  • clean energy utilization
  • low-carbon building
  • green building
  • multi-energy supply system
  • multi-object optimization

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Non-Ferrous Metal Smelting Slags for Thermal Energy Storage: A Mini Review
by Meichao Yin, Yaxuan Xiong, Aitonglu Zhang, Xiang Li, Yuting Wu, Cancan Zhang, Yanqi Zhao and Yulong Ding
Buildings 2025, 15(13), 2376; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings15132376 - 7 Jul 2025
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The metallurgical industry is integral to industrial development. As technology advances and industrial demand grows, the annual output of metallurgical waste slag continues to rise. Combined with the substantial historical stockpile, this has made the utilization of metallurgical slag a new research focus. [...] Read more.
The metallurgical industry is integral to industrial development. As technology advances and industrial demand grows, the annual output of metallurgical waste slag continues to rise. Combined with the substantial historical stockpile, this has made the utilization of metallurgical slag a new research focus. This study comprehensively sums up the composition and fundamental characteristics of metallurgical waste slag. It delves into the application potential of non-ferrous metal smelting waste slag, such as copper slag, nickel slag, and lead slag, in both sensible and latent heat storage. In sensible heat storage, copper slag, with its low cost and high thermal stability, is suitable as a storage material. After appropriate treatment, it can be combined with other materials to produce composite phase change energy storage materials, thus expanding its role into latent heat storage. Nickel slag, currently mainly used in infrastructure materials, still needs in-depth research to confirm its suitability for sensible heat storage. Nevertheless, in latent heat storage, it has been utilized in making the support framework of composite phase change materials. While there are no current examples of lead slag being used in sensible heat storage, the low leaching concentration of lead and zinc in lead slag concrete under alkaline conditions offers new utilization ideas. Given the strong nucleation effect of iron and impurities in lead slag, it is expected to be used in the skeleton preparation of composite phase change materials. Besides the aforementioned waste slags, other industrial waste slags also show potential as sensible heat storage materials. This paper aims to evaluate the feasibility of non-ferrous metal waste slag as energy storage materials. It analyses the pros and cons of their practical applications, elaborates on relevant research progress, technical hurdles, and future directions, all with the goal of enhancing their effective use in heat storage. Full article
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