Advances in Nano-Enhanced Thermal Functional Materials
A special issue of Nanomaterials (ISSN 2079-4991). This special issue belongs to the section "Nanocomposite Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 November 2024 | Viewed by 6513
Special Issue Editors
Interests: thermal energy storage materials; renewable thermal energy conversion; bioinspired thermal materials
Interests: polymer nanocomposites; thermal conduction; elastomer nanocomposites
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Interests: thermal management materials and technology; renewable thermal materials
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
To date, more than 90% global energy consumption is related to thermal energy conversion, transportation, storage and management. Thermal materials play increasingly important roles in improving energy utilization efficiency, pursuing sustainable development of low-carbon human society, and ensuring a safe and stable operation of electronic devices as well. Recent years have witnessed a rapid development of nano-enhanced thermal functional materials. For example, various nanostructured solar absorbers have been compounded with thermal fluids or solid–liquid phase change materials to enable high-efficiency direct absorption-based solar–thermal energy harvesting, which in turn drives many solar–thermal processes such vapor/steam generation, seawater desalination, sterilization, domestic and industrial heating and electricity generation. The incorporation of functional nanofillers can not merely boost the thermal conductivity of polymeric packaging materials but also impart them with electromagnetic screening capabilities. In addition to single phase heat transfer, nanostructured fillers can also help enhance performances of liquid–gas phase change-based thermal management devices and systems.
This Special Issue of Nanomaterials aims to highlight recent research advances in developing advanced nano-enhanced thermal functional materials for a variety of heating/cooling related applications. We are looking forward to receiving contributions in the form of both research articles and review articles related to the synthesis, characterization, application of nano-enhanced thermal functional materials from diverse research disciplines to promote further rapid growth of the field.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Nanostructured thermal conversion materials: photo-thermal conversion materials, electro-thermal conversion materials, magnetic-to-thermal conversion materials;
- Nano-enhanced thermal storage materials: solid sensible thermal storage materials, thermal nanofluids, solid–liquid phase change composites;
- Nano-enhanced thermal management materials: nanostructured thermal fillers, thermal interface materials, high-thermal-conductivity nanocomposites, thermal insulation nanocomposites, radiative cooling materials;
- Nano-enhanced thermal responsive materials: thermal actuation composites, thermal sensing and detection materials, infrared stealth composites;
- Mechanistic understanding of nano-enhancement effect: modeling, simulation, theoretical prediction;
- Diverse thermal-related applications: conversion and utilization of renewable thermal energy, personal thermal management, thermal management of electronic devices, advanced thermal-enabled material synthesis and fabrication techniques.
Prof. Dr. Peng Tao
Dr. Xiaoliang Zeng
Dr. Chao Chang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- thermal conversion materials
- thermal storage materials
- thermal interface materials
- polymer nanocomposites
- phase change materials
- thermal management
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