Sustainable Materials for Thermal Energy Storage Enabling the Renewable Energy Transition
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 17 December 2026 | Viewed by 41
Special Issue Editor
Interests: thermal energy storage; sensible heat storage; molten salts; corrosion mitigation; electrochemical impedance spectroscopy; high-entropy alloys; material sciences
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Dear Colleagues,
Thermal energy storage (TES) has become as one of the main important development for the energy industry, since it has the potential to overcome the existing mismatch between energy production and demand for discontinuous energy sources, solar thermal, at high temperature, and/or variable loads, for medium thermal energy demand.
TES systems can store heat or cold to be used later under varying conditions depending the target application and help to integrate sustainable processes for decarbonization in the industry, among others.
This special issue is focus on the development of sustainable materials to be integrated in recent advances on thermal energy storage materials at low, medium and high temperature, covering a wide range of applications as building efficiency, renewable energy technologies or industrial waste heat recovery, essential to enable the renewable energy transition.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but not limited to) the following:
- Sustainable materials for energy applications
- Development of TES materials for sensible, latent and thermochemical energy storage systems
- Advanced TES materials for concentrated solar power technology
- Sorption and chemical reactions
- Electrochemical tools for better TES control systems
- Corrosion studies on TES systems and mitigation strategies
- TES materials for industrial waste heat recovery
- Thermal properties enhancement of TES materials
- Modeling and simulation of TES materials
I look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Angel G Fernández
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- thermal energy storage
- sustainable material
- ecological coating
- electrochemical monitoring tools
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