Navigating a Sustainable Future with Phase Change Materials for Energy Storage
- 1st Edition - January 23, 2026
- Latest edition
- Editors: Adarsh Kumar Pandey, B. Kalidasan
- Language: English
Navigating a Sustainable Future with Phase Change Materials for Energy Storage provides a guide to PCMs that encompasses fundamental principles, recent innovations, and interd… Read more
Navigating a Sustainable Future with Phase Change Materials for Energy Storage provides a guide to PCMs that encompasses fundamental principles, recent innovations, and interdisciplinary applications. By offering detailed insight into improved PCM performance, cost-effective production, and integration with renewable energy and smart technologies, this book equips readers with the necessary knowledge to advance energy efficiency, meet regulatory requirements and achieve sustainability goals. Written for researchers and students in the fields of material science, mechanical engineering, chemical engineering, and energy engineering, especially those with a focus on thermal energy storage, Navigating a Sustainable Future with Phase Change Materials for Energy Storage is sure to be a welcomed resource.
- Explores how to integrate PCMs into building materials for thermal regulation, thermal comfort, and for hybridizing with building cooling units, data on the thermal properties and longevity of different PCMs, and compliance with energy efficiency regulations
- Contains insights into the latest advancements in PCM technology for energy storage, methods to enhance the efficiency of renewable energy systems, and strategies for integrating PCMs into existing energy infrastructure
- Offers data on PCMs that can enhance thermal management of batteries in electric and hybrid vehicles, information on the durability and safety of PCMs in automotive applications, and case studies of successful PCM integration
- Presents information on PCMs suitable for electronics cooling, techniques for integrating PCMs into electronic devices, and performance metrics for different PCMs
- Highlights research on new PCM materials and composites, synthesis techniques for producing PCMs, and analysis of the physical and chemical properties of PCMs
Researchers and students in the fields of material science, mechanical engineering, chemical engineering, and energy engineering, especially those with a focus on thermal energy storage
Part 1: Connection between Energy & Phase Change Materials
1. Energy Storage: Towards Sustainable Future
2. Phase Change Materials as Energy storage material: Classification and Challenges
Part 2: Thermal Performance enhancement of Phase Change Materials
3. Impact of 1D, 2D, 3D nanomaterial with Phase Change Materials
4. Significance of Encapsulated Phase Change Materials
5. Shape stabilized Phase Change Materials: Solving the issue of leakage
6. Advancements in Eutectic Phase Change Materials
Part 3: Phase Change Materials and its Applications
7. Phase Change Materials in Domestic Solar Energy Systems
8. Battery Thermal Management and Automotive Applications of Phase Change Materials
9. Electronics Cooling and Thermal Management using Phase Change Materials
10. Phase Change Materials for Building Thermal Regulation
11. Phase Change Materials for Cold Storage
12. Phase Change Materials for Space Application
13. Phase Change Materials for Textile Application
Part 4: Phase Change Materials and Sustainability
14. Environmental and Sustainability Aspects of Phase Change Materials
15. Life Cycle Analysis embodied with Carbon/emission/Recycling nature of Phase Change Materials
Part 5: Futuristic Advancement associated with Phase Change Materials
16. Emerging Class of Phase Change Materials: Towards sustainable future with IOT and smart technologies
1. Energy Storage: Towards Sustainable Future
2. Phase Change Materials as Energy storage material: Classification and Challenges
Part 2: Thermal Performance enhancement of Phase Change Materials
3. Impact of 1D, 2D, 3D nanomaterial with Phase Change Materials
4. Significance of Encapsulated Phase Change Materials
5. Shape stabilized Phase Change Materials: Solving the issue of leakage
6. Advancements in Eutectic Phase Change Materials
Part 3: Phase Change Materials and its Applications
7. Phase Change Materials in Domestic Solar Energy Systems
8. Battery Thermal Management and Automotive Applications of Phase Change Materials
9. Electronics Cooling and Thermal Management using Phase Change Materials
10. Phase Change Materials for Building Thermal Regulation
11. Phase Change Materials for Cold Storage
12. Phase Change Materials for Space Application
13. Phase Change Materials for Textile Application
Part 4: Phase Change Materials and Sustainability
14. Environmental and Sustainability Aspects of Phase Change Materials
15. Life Cycle Analysis embodied with Carbon/emission/Recycling nature of Phase Change Materials
Part 5: Futuristic Advancement associated with Phase Change Materials
16. Emerging Class of Phase Change Materials: Towards sustainable future with IOT and smart technologies
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: January 23, 2026
- Language: English
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Adarsh Kumar Pandey
Adarsh Pandey is an Associate Professor at the Research Centre for Nanomaterials and Energy Technology School of Science and Technology, Sunway University, Selangor, Malaysia. His area of research is in phase change materials, nano-enhanced phase change materials, hybrid solar photovoltaic systems, dye sensitized solar cells, self -cleaning of PV modules and energy and exergy analysis of renewable energy systems.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Research Centre for Nanomaterials and Energy Technology School of Science and Technology, Sunway University, Selangor, MalaysiaBK
B. Kalidasan
B. Kalidasan completed his doctoral of philosophy from School of Engineering & Technology, Sunway University, Malaysia in 2024. He is basically a Mechanical Engineering graduate from Anna University Chennai in 2013 and also holds Master of Technology in Energy and Environmental Engineering from VIT University-Vellore, India in 2015. He holds research expertise in the field of renewable energy, thermal energy storage, phase change materials and solar thermal system. He has published over 55+ papers as per Scopus database, including one in International Materials Review, One in Chemical Engineering Journal, One in Journal of Cleaner Production , Five in Journal of Energy Storage, Two in Journal of Environmental Management, One in Renewable Energy & much more in Q1 journals (International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, Applied Thermal Engineering, Journal of Molecular Liquids, Materials Today Sustainability, Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessment, Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry) and 20+ conference papers, with about 950+ citations and an H-index of 15. He was honored with several awards, including Rising Star Award 2022 in Sunway University, Best Paper and Best Present Award in several conference, Best Innovation Award 2022 in Make it Challenge and Best Outgoing Student Award. His research expertise includes Renewable Energy, Solar Thermal System and Phase Change Material. He has over 1080 citations and h-index of 15 as per Google Scholar.
Affiliations and expertise
Research Centre for Nano-Materials and Energy Technology (RCNMET), School of Engineering and Technology, Sunway University, No. 5, Jalan Universiti, Bandar Sunway, Petaling Jaya, 47500 Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia