Advanced Materials for Thermal Energy Storage

Dear Colleagues,

Concerns about depleting fossil fuels and global warming effects are pushing our society toward the search for new renewable sources of energy with the potential to substitute coal, natural gas, and petroleum. Renewable energies such as solar and wind are progressively displacing fossil fuels in the production of energy. However, the intrinsic discontinuous nature of renewable energies necessitates the development of storage technologies to overcome the negative effects of transitory weather conditions, modulate low-to-high energy gaps, and achieve continuous 24 h electricity production. In the case of solar thermal electricity (STE) plants, the development of new efficient thermal energy storage (TES) systems operating at high temperatures is particularly important to improve the efficiency during electricity production. Additionally, thermal energy storage at low-to-moderate temperatures is highly demanded to improve the energy efficiency and carbon footprint of numerous industrial processes, buildings, and infrastructures.

This Special Issue welcomes manuscripts dealing with the utilization of materials for thermal energy storage applications, including approaches based on sensible, latent, and thermochemical heat exchange processes. In this sense, we welcome contributions including, but not limited to, solid media storage (e.g., geomaterials, concrete, ceramics, etc.), fluids (e.g., heat transfer fluids, molten salts, nanofluids, etc.), or chemical reactions (e.g., metallic hydrides, carbonates, ammonia, etc.), either for large scale (i.e., power generation) or small scale (i.e., cogeneration, active/passive heat management system in residential and non-residential buildings) storage.

Research papers should highlight novel contributions in the fields of materials design, characterization, or application in thermal energy storage, by means of numerical modeling and/or experimental work. Review papers in these fields are also appreciated.

Dr. Francisco de Paula Montero Chacón
Prof. Juan Carlos Serrano-Ruiz
Guest Editors

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