Recent advances in the design of molecular photoswitches have opened up opportunities for storing solar energy strained isomeric structures and releasing heat on demand, culminating thermal (MOST) storage densities over 0.3 MJ kg−1 validating potential achieving battery applications.

Smart applications of the Internet of Things are improving the performance of buildings, reducing energy demand. Local and smart networks, soft computing methodologies, machine intelligence algorithms and pervasive sensors are some of the basics of energy optimization strategies developed for the benefit of environmental sustainability and user comfort. This work presents a distributed sensor-p...

Thermal energy storage has always been one of the most critical components in residential solar water heating applications. Solar radiation is a time-dependent energy source with an intermittent character. The heating demands of a residential house are also time dependent. However, the energy source and the demands of a house (or building), in general, do not match each other, especially in sol...

Mechanical characterization of a two-dimensional Thermal Energy Storage (TES) composite structure that combines the heat storage capability with structural functionality was carried out experimentally. Static and fatigue experiments were conducted for the composite structure under three-point bending at both room temperature and elevated temperature. An energy method model was developed to pred...

Renewable energy supplies are steadily gaining increasing importance in all the countries. In particular, solar energy, being non-polluting, clean and inexhaustible, has received wide attention among scientists and engineers. Though there are many advantages, an important factor is that solar energy is time dependent energy source with an intermittent character. Hence some form of thermal energ...

The ability to design the control of heat flow has innumerable benefits in the design of electronic systems such as thermoelectric energy harvesters, solid-state lighting, and thermal imagers, where the thermal design plays a key role in performance and device reliability. In this work, we employ one identical sensu-unit with facile natural composition to experimentally realize a new class of t...