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 ...

In a recent article published in the Journal of Energy Storage, researchers investigated the effects of non-linear porosity ...

The use of phase-change materials (PCMs) for thermal control is not new; consider the use of the icebox to store perishable foods before the development of efficient, inexpensive, active refrigeration ...

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

NREL scientists have unveiled a storage system based on a phase-change material that can store both thermal energy and electricity in a single device. According to the researchers, the new ...

Project Description: The goal of one project was to devise a pizza delivery container to maintain pizza temperature even during cold weather using phase change material (PCM). Solid PCMs melt (change ...

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 ...