Wearable solar energy management based on visible solar thermal energy storage for full solar spectrum utilization

Enlightening Materials with Photoswitches

(2020) Alexis Goulet‐Hanssens et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Facile Fabrication of Lightweight Shape Memory Thermoplastic Polyurethane/Polylactide Foams by Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Foaming

(2020) Wei Wang et al.   INDUSTRIAL & ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY RESEARCH

Molecular Factors Controlling the Isomerization of Azobenzenes in the Cavity of a Flexible Coordination Cage

(2020) Luca Pesce et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Photochemical Phase Transitions Enable Coharvesting of Photon Energy and Ambient Heat for Energetic Molecular Solar Thermal Batteries That Upgrade Thermal Energy

(2020) Zhao-Yang Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Thermoplastic Blend Exhibiting Shape Memory-Assisted Self-Healing Functionality

(2020) Swapnil Bhattacharya et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

A Visible Energy Management by Photochromic Solar Thermal Fuel Using a Color Display

(2020) Liang Fei et al.   Solar RRL

Dual-Shell Photothermoelectric Textile Based on a PPy Photothermal Layer for Solar Thermal Energy Harvesting

(2020) Xuefei Zhang et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Photoinduced reversible solid-to-liquid transitions using photoswitchable materials

(2019) Wen-Cong Xu et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Solar Energy Storage by Molecular Norbornadiene–Quadricyclane Photoswitches: Polymer Film Devices

(2019) Anne Ugleholdt Petersen et al.   Advanced Science

Cationic Defect Engineering for Controlling the Infrared Absorption of Hexagonal Cesium Tungsten Bronze Nanoparticles

(2019) Shuhei Nakakura et al.   INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Spectral measure of color variation of black-orange-black (BOB) pattern in small parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae), a statistical approach

(2019) Rebeca Mora-Castro et al.   PLoS One

A novel strategy to construct co-continuous PLA/NBR thermoplastic vulcanizates: Metal-ligand coordination-induced dynamic vulcanization, balanced stiffness-toughness and shape memory effect

(2019) Jiarong Huang et al.   CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL

Solar Absorber Material and System Designs for Photothermal Water Vaporization towards Clean Water and Energy Production

(2018) Minmin Gao et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

Smart Air–Water Interfaces with Arylazopyrazole Surfactants and Their Role in Photoresponsive Aqueous Foam

(2018) Marco Schnurbus et al.   LANGMUIR

Dual-responsive cellulose fabric based on reversible acidichromic and photoisomeric polymeric dye containing pendant azobenzene

(2018) Haiyan Mao et al.   SENSORS AND ACTUATORS B-CHEMICAL

Solar thermal energy harvesting properties of spacer fabric composite used for transparent insulation materials

(2018) Hao Jia et al.   SOLAR ENERGY MATERIALS AND SOLAR CELLS

Optically-regulated thermal energy storage in diverse organic phase-change materials

(2018) Grace G. D. Han et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Azobenzene-based solar thermal fuels: design, properties, and applications

(2018) Liqi Dong et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Macroscopic heat release in a molecular solar thermal energy storage system

(2018) Zhihang Wang et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

Efficient cycling utilization of solar-thermal energy for thermochromic displays with controllable heat output

(2018) Weixiang Yang et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry A

Design and optimization of a photo-thermal energy conversion model based on polar bear hair

(2017) Hao Jia et al.   SOLAR ENERGY MATERIALS AND SOLAR CELLS

Optically-controlled long-term storage and release of thermal energy in phase-change materials

(2017) Grace G. D. Han et al.   Nature Communications

Transparent wood containing CsxWO3 nanoparticles for heat-shielding window applications

(2017) Ziya Yu et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry A

Self-assembled spectrum selective plasmonic absorbers with tunable bandwidth for solar energy conversion

(2017) Lin Zhou et al.   Nano Energy

Photocontrol of fluid slugs in liquid crystal polymer microactuators

(2016) Jiu-an Lv et al.   NATURE

Photogated humidity-driven motility

(2015) Lidong Zhang et al.   Nature Communications

Templated assembly of photoswitches significantly increases the energy-storage capacity of solar thermal fuels

(2014) Timothy J. Kucharski et al.   Nature Chemistry

Molecular solar thermal (MOST) energy storage and release system

(2012) Kasper Moth-Poulsen et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

Shape memory polymer hybrids of SBS/dl-PLA and their shape memory effects

(2012) Heng Zhang et al.   MATERIALS CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS

Searching for a Better Thermal Battery

(2012) I. Gur et al.   SCIENCE

Photoisomerization in different classes of azobenzene

(2011) H. M. Dhammika Bandara et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Chemical solutions for the closed-cycle storage of solar energy

(2011) Timothy J. Kucharski et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy to Probe Reversibly Photoswitchable Azobenzene in Controlled Nanoscale Environments

(2011) Yue Bing Zheng et al.   NANO LETTERS

Mechanism of Thermal Reversal of the (Fulvalene)tetracarbonyldiruthenium Photoisomerization: Toward Molecular Solar-Thermal Energy Storage

(2010) Yosuke Kanai et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION