Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC

University of California

University of Texas System

Shuang Cui

Lance Michael Wheeler

Charles William Booten

Jason David Woods

Sampath Kommandur

Ravi Anant Kishore

Judith Cecilia Vidal

Renkun Chen

Hongbing Lu

David Todd Moore

Bryan Anthony Rosales

Erin Lynn Blackley

Bernadette Karen Magalindan

Gustavo Felicio Perruci

Zhiying Xiao

Paul William Meyer

Yudong Li

Kyle Edward O'Neil Foster

Kelsey Mary Lynch

Adewale Odukomaiya

Xiaowen Chen

The present disclosure relates to a directional heat transfer using thermal control devices, including a dual phase change thermal diode and an active contact-based thermal switch. The thermal diode includes a positive temperature coefficient switching material and a negative temperature coefficient switching material arranged in series. The thermal switch includes two thermally conducting surfaces which may be moved to contact (i.e., having a distance between them of substantially zero) creating minimal thermal contact resistance. Both thermal control devices may be used to control heat flow into and/or out of a building.

Thermal diode and thermal switch bi-directional heat transfer in building envelopes

Wood template-supported phase change material (PCM) composite having thermal energy storage applications. A wood template-supported PCM may include a wood template that has had at least a portion of its xylan and/or lignin removed and saturated with a PCM. The PCM may be stabilized with a cross linkable network for improved infiltration into the wood template. The wood template-supported PCM composite may be formed by extracting xylan and/or lignin from the wood to create a wood template, densifying at least a portion of the wood template, and inserting a PCM into the wood template.

Wood template-supported phase change composite for thermal energy applications

Thermal diode and thermal switch for bi-directional heat transfer in building envelopes

Thermo-responsive hydrogel composite (TRHC) desiccants having high adsorption capacities, fast adsorption/desorption rates, and low regeneration temperatures (T) compared to traditional desiccants. TRHC desiccants may be synthesized by freeze drying. The porous structures resulting from freeze drying copolymers of thermo-responsive polymers and/or hygroscopic agents may be combined with hygroscopic inorganic salts, resulting in TRHC desiccants having superior performance properties.

Super-adsorbing porous thermo-responsive desiccants

The present disclosure relates to a composition that includes a scaffold having an internal space and a mixture positioned within the space, where the mixture includes a first phase having a metal halide perovskite and a second phase including at least one of a perovskite precursor and/or a switching molecule, the composition is capable of reversibly switching between a first state having at least one of a first transparency and/or a first color and a second state having at least one of a second transparency and/or a second color.

Switchable photovoltaic devices

Among other things, the present disclosure relates to phase change material (PCM) composites composed of an PCM mixed with a nucleating agent contained within the pores of a graphite matrix and/or a hydrogel. The process to create these PCM composites includes coating the surface of graphite with a surfactant, compressing the graphite to form a matrix, then filling the graphite matrix with the PCM.

Salt hydrate-based phase change thermal energy storage and encapsulation thereof

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