Phase change materials are proving to be a useful tool to store excess energy and recover it later – storing energy not as electricity, but as heat. Let’s take a look at how the technology ...

A team of Lehigh University researchers has successfully predicted abnormal grain growth in simulated polycrystalline ...

The concept of phase-change recording is straightforward. An intense laser or current pulse heats and melts the crystalline material, which is subsequently quenched into the amorphous state. To ...

Forget Roomba. How About A Robot That Warms And Cools Your House? With the help of built-in sensors and phase change material, of course.

It’s infused with copper, a common cooling agent intended to draw heat away from the body, and its cover contains phase-change material, which, in my experience, is one of the most effective ...

The metafilm is based on the phase change material GST and metal Mo. For the optical properties of GST change dramatically in different states, the infrared radiation characteristics of the target ...

a phase change material (PCM). The study used the enthalpy-porosity approach and a local thermal non-equilibrium (LTNE) model to analyze positive and negative porosity gradients in the x and y ...

An exotic state of matter has been found lurking within a previous exotic state that was discovered in a magnetic compound last decade.

Scientists in Iraq have applied two different kinds of phase-change materials to lower the operating temperatures of PV panels. Their experiment showed that beeswax and paraffin wax are ...

The researchers discovered the new phase while studying a one-dimensional model of a type of magnetic material called a ... with a giant magnetic entropy change—offered by "half fire, half ...

Phase change materials (PCM) are already used for basic energy storage, in reducing heat losses, increasing heat storage, controlling temperature changes, and controlling spaces' temperature. However, ...