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Navigating a Sustainable Future with Phase Change Materials for Energy Storage

  • 1st Edition - January 28, 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

Description

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.

Key features

  • 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

Readership

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

Table of contents

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

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: February 16, 2026
  • Language: English

About the editors

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Adarsh Kumar Pandey

Adarsh Kumar Pandey is a Professor at the United Arab Emirates University, Dubai, UAE. His research focuses on advanced energy materials, nanomaterials, nano‑enhanced phase change materials, and their applications in renewable and sustainable energy technologies. He has been recognized among the top 2% of scientists worldwide by Stanford University and Elsevier BV.

He earned his PhD in Energy from Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, India. Prof. Pandey is a recipient of Sunway University’s Excellence in Research Award (2022) and Excellence in Enterprise and Innovation Award (2023). He has also received several prestigious national and international fellowships, including the National Renewable Energy Fellowship from the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Government of India, and a Post‑Doctoral Fellowship from the University of Malaya.

Prof. Pandey serves as an Associate Editor and Editorial Board Member for several ISI- and Scopus-indexed journals. He has authored numerous research and review articles in reputed international journals, holds multiple patents, and has contributed to several book chapters. He has also successfully secured and managed major research grants as Principal Investigator and Co‑Investigator.

Affiliations and expertise
Professor at the United Arab Emirates University, UAE

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B. Kalidasan

B. Kalidasan is a Lecturer at the Sunway Centre for Electrochemical Energy and Sustainable Technology, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Sunway University, Selangor, Malaysia. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering with a specialization in Energy Engineering from VIT University, Vellore, India. His doctoral research at Sunway University focused on nano‑enhanced phase change materials for low‑temperature thermal energy storage.

Following his PhD, he completed post‑doctoral research at the Research Centre for Nanomaterials and Energy Technology, Sunway University. His research expertise spans thermal energy storage, nanomaterials, solar thermal systems, renewable energy, and net‑zero carbon neutrality. He has published research and review articles in several high‑impact international journals, including Progress in Materials Science, Progress in Energy and Combustion Science, InfoMat, International Materials Reviews, Chemical Engineering Journal, and SmartMat, among others. He is also an inventor on multiple Indian and Malaysian patents based on his research contributions. His academic and research excellence has been recognized through several honors and awards, including the Rising Star Award at Sunway University, Best Paper and Best Presentation Awards at international conferences, the Best Innovation Award in the Make It Challenge, and the Best Outgoing Student Award.

Affiliations and expertise
Lecturer, Research Centre for Nano-Materials and Energy Technology (RCNMET), School of Engineering and Technology, Sunway University, No. 5, Jalan Universiti, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia

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