Perhaps the most common form of phase change heat storage on the market is the sodium-acetate handwarmer. These handwarmers contain a sodium-acetate gel in a plastic pouch. When the gel is given a ...

Solar-heated homes integrate thermal energy storage, improving efficiency and reducing environmental impact through ...

However, phase change memory uses electrical pulses to change the bit rather than the heat from a laser, and it is read by measuring the electrical resistance through the cell, not the reflection ...

“Our focus is to rapidly advance the capabilities of thermochemical (TCS) and phase change material (PCM) heat storage units, and smart control systems to enable them to be easily integrated ...

Various DLR institutes are researching and developing electrochemical storage systems for electricity ... purely physically in the form of sensible heat (temperature difference), latent heat (phase ...

The battery-tech startup that spun out of Stanford University and based in San Jose, California, announced this week its proprietary Anthro Proteus technology. This new type of phase-change ...

In rewritable phase change media, the heat from a short, high-intensity laser pulse turns a bit in the recording layer into an unstructured "amorphous" state, and a medium-intensity pulse sets it ...

Latent heat storage, which exploits the melting and solidification phenomena of a phase change material (PCM) to absorb or release heat, was used to maximize the duration of the high power region ...

This idea was subsequently extended to optical memories where differences in optical reflectivity serve as a basis for data storage. The concept of phase-change recording is straightforward.

This has important implications for the understanding of phase change materials, which are used in data storage and thermoelectrics, among other applications. Antimony as a model for phase change ...