Renewable energy generation driving positive energy communities

An intrinsic antistatic polyethylene glycol‐based solid–solid phase change material for thermal energy storage and thermal management

“…Enormous effort from scientists and researchers has been devoted to developing renewable energy, because the demand for energy in human society keeps growing and the popular fossil energy on earth is limited and environmentally unfriendly. [1][2][3] Phase change materials (PCMs) have been proposed as one of the efficient materials to utilize renewable thermal energy including solar thermal energy and geothermal energy, 4,5 in virtue of their adorable properties like high thermal storage capacity, tiny temperature variation in phase change procedures, wide range of material sources and low cost. 6,7 These materials can store and release thermal energy in their phase change processes repeatedly, and have been employed for thermal storage and thermal management in various fields for decades.…”