With increasing apprehensions over global warming and environmental issues, the need to develop renewable energy is becoming more critical to secure our future energy needs. Solar energy is the most abundant source of energy and is easily accessible. However, making efficient use of solar energy is not an easy task. Energy materials, especially in their micro and nanoscale, have an excellent potential for absorbing, transferring and storing solar energy when they are dispersed in an aqueous medium. The increased surface area to volume ratio of energy materials at nanoscale exhibits extraordinary characteristics. Various applications relevant to heat transfer, energy conversion, and storage have increasingly used nanoparticles due to their ability to absorb, store, and carry heat.
However, successful deployment of materials in energy harvesting and storage applications must also consider some of the very fundamental challenges, including but not limited to sedimentation, entrainment, stability, and life of these potential energy materials. Additionally, there are novel applications of newly developed specialized materials in solar energy capture, transport and storage. This topic is to circumscribe all challenges, innovative applications and numerical studies in materials for energy capture, transfer, and storage to have a safe future in terms of solar energy utilization.
This Research Topic is intended to explore the innovative use of materials in solar energy harvesting, conversion, transfer and storage applications. Authors are highly encouraged to submit their original research papers, review papers, case studies, experimental and numerical studies relevant to the topic. Subjects included in this research topic include much more over and above the following:
• Artificial intelligence (AI) for optimization of energy and materials.
• Intelligent optimization-based application for solar PV cell.
• Materials based solar energy applications
• Nanomaterials for electrical properties (Resistivity and Conductivity)
• Nanomaterials for optical and thermoelectric properties
• Direct steam generation
• Solar photovoltaic thermal (PVT) hybrid system
• Solar desalination based on nanomaterials
• Concentrated solar energy storage using nanomaterials
• Nanorefrigrant based solar refrigeration and air conditioning
• Solar energy-based nanostructured phase change materials
• Energy materials for solar thermal energy storage
• Nano lubricants
• Simulations of thermo fluid systems
• Thermal systems optimization
• Heat driven co-generation and tri-generation systems
• Bulk metallic galsses
• High entropy alloys
With increasing apprehensions over global warming and environmental issues, the need to develop renewable energy is becoming more critical to secure our future energy needs. Solar energy is the most abundant source of energy and is easily accessible. However, making efficient use of solar energy is not an easy task. Energy materials, especially in their micro and nanoscale, have an excellent potential for absorbing, transferring and storing solar energy when they are dispersed in an aqueous medium. The increased surface area to volume ratio of energy materials at nanoscale exhibits extraordinary characteristics. Various applications relevant to heat transfer, energy conversion, and storage have increasingly used nanoparticles due to their ability to absorb, store, and carry heat.
However, successful deployment of materials in energy harvesting and storage applications must also consider some of the very fundamental challenges, including but not limited to sedimentation, entrainment, stability, and life of these potential energy materials. Additionally, there are novel applications of newly developed specialized materials in solar energy capture, transport and storage. This topic is to circumscribe all challenges, innovative applications and numerical studies in materials for energy capture, transfer, and storage to have a safe future in terms of solar energy utilization.
This Research Topic is intended to explore the innovative use of materials in solar energy harvesting, conversion, transfer and storage applications. Authors are highly encouraged to submit their original research papers, review papers, case studies, experimental and numerical studies relevant to the topic. Subjects included in this research topic include much more over and above the following:
• Artificial intelligence (AI) for optimization of energy and materials.
• Intelligent optimization-based application for solar PV cell.
• Materials based solar energy applications
• Nanomaterials for electrical properties (Resistivity and Conductivity)
• Nanomaterials for optical and thermoelectric properties
• Direct steam generation
• Solar photovoltaic thermal (PVT) hybrid system
• Solar desalination based on nanomaterials
• Concentrated solar energy storage using nanomaterials
• Nanorefrigrant based solar refrigeration and air conditioning
• Solar energy-based nanostructured phase change materials
• Energy materials for solar thermal energy storage
• Nano lubricants
• Simulations of thermo fluid systems
• Thermal systems optimization
• Heat driven co-generation and tri-generation systems
• Bulk metallic galsses
• High entropy alloys