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 ...

Researchers from Bangladesh and Australia have explored hybrid nano-phase change materials (HNPCMs) for PVT applications. They used paraffin wax as the phase-change material (PCM), incorporating ...

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 ...

Phase change materials absorb or release thermal energy as they shift between different phases of matter. Water is the most familiar example. When water boils, the liquid remains ...

In a recent paper published in the journal Nano Energy Research, Chinese researchers at Beijing Normal University have been developing multifunctional composite phase change materials (PCMs ...

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 ...

A rewritable optical disc. First used in drives by Panasonic in the late 1980s, the phase change technology was subsequently employed in all major optical drives, including CD-RW, DVD-RW ...

After decades of looking, researchers have seen a string of atoms go through a 1D phase change so elusive that ... or magnetic behaviours that some materials show in the real world.