Shenzhen Advanced Institute developed photothermal phase change energy storage microcapsules

Recently, the team of Yu Xuefeng, a researcher at the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, developed a new type of photothermal phase change energy storage microcapsules

Converting sunlight into thermal energy is an important way to use solar energy at present, and it has great application potential in the fields of seawater desalination, heating, construction, and solar energy storage systems

The Material Interface Research Center of Shenzhen Advanced Institute has established a microcapsule pilot test and industry platform with an annual output of 300 tons

In this work, the team designed a high-efficiency solar energy storage phase change microcapsule

The research work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Key Frontier Science Project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Special Support Program of Guangdong Province

Left: a schematic diagram of photothermal phase-change microcapsule solar storage; right: a and b are the characterization of black phosphorus on the surface of the microcapsule and the internal scanning electron microscope; c: the photothermal conversion and storage temperature-time curve of the microcapsule material; d The picture shows the actual application effect diagram of the simulated photothermal phase change microcapsule; the e and f diagrams are the energy storage mechanism diagrams of two photothermal phase change microcapsules