High-Temperature Materials, Processing, and System Integration for Solar Energy Applications

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue addresses the critical need for advanced materials and processing technologies that can withstand high-temperature operating conditions without their performance degrading. Topics of interest include high-temperature materials, processing, and system integration for solar energy applications. We invite authors to submit research encompassing fundamental materials science, innovative component and system design, novel manufacturing processes, and system-level integration challenges that are essential for the next generation of solar thermal technologies and industrial decarbonization efforts. This Special Issue aims to bring together cutting-edge research on concentrating solar power (CSP) systems, thermo-photovoltaic systems, sustainable industrial processing and decarbonization, and energy storage applications for high-temperature operations.  For solar applications, high temperature is typically considered to be 700 °C and above, consistent with next-generation CSP systems.

Topics of interest for this Special Issue include the following:

• Development of refractory materials, ceramics, and composites for solar receivers, spectrally selective absorbers, protective barrier coatings, or high-temperature heat transfer and thermal storage.
• Additive manufacturing and novel processing of complex heat exchangers, absorber components, and other high-temperature system components.
• Solar-based material processing, including solar thermochemical reactions, solar metallurgy, and solar-driven advanced manufacturing.
• Integrated systems, subsystems, and/or engineered components necessary for decarbonizing industries requiring process heat.
• Thermo-photovoltaic balance of system materials and components, heat transfer, and thermal design for efficient high-temperature systems.
• High-temperature energy storage materials, processing, components, and integration.
• Materials and components for combined photovoltaic-thermal systems, solar-assisted electrolysis, and integrated storage solutions.
• Processing and scaling of high-temperature solar selective coatings with excellent thermal and chemical stability.

Prof. Dr. Christi K. Madsen
Guest Editor

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