Highly Efficient Technologies for the Energy Transition
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "B: Energy and Environment".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 April 2026 | Viewed by 1028
Special Issue Editors
2. National Research Council, Institute of Nanotechnology (CNR-NANOTEC), Via Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy
Interests: building integration of innovative technologies; energy saving; building energy
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Interests: energy saving; solar energy; wind energy; FEM simulation; acoustics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Nowadays, high-performance technologies are more and more required to achieve the compelling goals of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, harvesting clean energy and saving energy by means of innovative materials and technologies. These points indeed represent a pivotal challenge for researchers, within the framework of this epochal energy transition. In this intriguing roadmap, passive and active technologies for HVAC systems will play a very relevant role: smart materials and novel devices will provide exciting performances and properties and disclose unexplored potentials, offering the chance to enhance design opportunities and attainable energy saving, both during fabrication and operation.
It is our pleasure to invite you to contribute to this Special Issue with your valuable manuscripts, sending full papers, reviews, and communications dealing with the design, characterization, and modelling of smart materials and devices for energy saving, for a very wide readership.
Here is a non-exhaustive list of the main topics proposed for this Special Issue:
- Energy harvesting and saving;
- Heat pumps, heat transfer, thermal storage, and phase change materials;
- Chromogenics;
- Modelling and simulation of smart materials;
- Radiative cooling;
- Properties and characterization of smart materials and devices for HVAC.
Dr. Alessandro Cannavale
Prof. Dr. Ubaldo Ayr
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- energy harvesting and saving
- heat pumps
- heat transfer
- thermal storage
- cooling
- HVAC systems
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