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Neutral and Ionic Organic-Base Phase Change Materials: Design, Synthesis, Characterization, New Developments, Applications and Perspectives

A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Materials".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 June 2023) | Viewed by 470

Special Issue Editors

Center for Cooperative Research on Alternative Energies (CIC energiGUNE), Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
Interests: thermal energy storage (TES); phase change materials (PCMs); latent heat storage (LHS); organic plastic crystals (OPCs); organic ionic plastic crystals (OIPCs)
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Thermal Energy Solutions Area, CIC energiGUNE, Parque Tecnológico de Miñano, C/Albert Einstein 48, 01510 Vitoria-Gasteiz, Álava, Spain
Interests: thermal energy storage; latent heat storage; solid-state phase change materials; shape-stabilized phase change materials
Thermal Energy Solutions Area, CIC energiGUNE, Parque Tecnológico de Miñano, C/Albert Einstein 48, 01510 Vitoria-Gasteiz, Álava, Spain
Interests: thermal energy storage; latent heat storage; physics of phase transitions; solid-state phase change materials; shape-stabilized phase change materials

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Phase Change Materials (PCM) are one of the most important players for the consolidation of thermal energy storage (TES) in the current energy transition. However, the boost to implementate TES systems in the market remains a big challenge. In this sense, the development of versatile TES systems with high TES density, easy preparation and handleing and low cost that will contribute to the desired implementation are highly demanded. Thus, TES systems based on PCMs are an interesting alternative becasuse they fulfil previous requirements. According to their nature, PCMs are classified in 3 groups, organic, inorganic and eutectic. Among them, organic PCMs (OPCMs) have some advantages, high latent heat, low corrosion, tailored transition temperature, recyclability or their ability to be easily modified to improve other properties such as thermal conductivity. Therefore, the use of OPCMs has expanded considerably in recent years and there is a need to update the number of available OPCMs, their properties, the new developments achieved in this kind of materials as well as the spectrum of possible appications.

This Special Issue is consequently devoted to new developments, desing, synthesis and characterization of OPCMs (neutral and ionic) with energetic solid-liquid and/or solid-solid transitions but it covers potential applications and future perspectives of these interesting materials as well. Therefore, we kindly invite you to submit your manuscript to this Special Issue in the form of a full paper, communication or critical review.

Dr. Eduardo J. Garcia-Suarez
Dr. Angel Serrano
Prof. Dr. Elena Palomo del Barrio
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • Thermal Energy Storage (TES)
  • Phase Change Materials (PCMs)
  • Latent Heat Storage (LHS)
  • Organic Plastic Crystals (OPCs)
  • Organic Ionic Plastic Crystals (OIPCs)

Published Papers

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