Particle Technology in the Formulation and Fabrication of Thermal Energy Storage Materials

This article reviews the state of art formulation and fabrication sensible, latent, thermochemical thermal energy storage (TES) materials with special focus on role particle technology in enhancing performance these materials. Molten salt-based sensible TES have been intensively studied, particularly use doped nanoparticles for specific heat capacity conductivity. For latent TES, inclusion property enhancers is among most effective approaches to address low conductivity supercooling issues phase change (PCMs), whereas encapsulation PCMs structurally stabilized composite are favorable methods leakage chemical incompatibility challenges. Thermochemical often incorporated an inert or active host matrix structural stabilization.