Next Generation Phase Change Materials for Energy Storage: Fundamentals, Engineering, and Applications

Kalidasan Balasubramanian · Reji Kumar Rajamony · Adarsh Kumar Pandey

Nov 2026 · Academic Press

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Next Generation Phase Change Materials for Energy Storage: Fundamentals, Engineering, and Applications provides an in-depth exploration of cutting-edge phase change materials (PCMs), including salt hydrates, ionic liquids, porous-based composites, nanoengineered PCMs, and metal-organic frameworks, highlighting their synthesis, thermophysical properties, and how innovative modifications improve thermal conductivity, stability, and energy storage efficiency. Readers will gain insights into next-generation PCMs including photo-switchable, magnetically multifunctional, and thermo-responsive smart PCMs and how these advanced materials enable adaptive and on-demand thermal management, making them highly relevant for applications in energy storage, electronics, textiles, and biomedical fields.The book emphasizes eco-friendly and bioinspired PCM technologies, including nature-derived materials such as biopolymers and biochar composites. It provides solutions for key challenges in sustainable energy storage, exploring how nature-inspired microcapsules and hierarchical structures improve PCM stability, heat transfer, and environmental sustainability. - Addresses the critical challenge of enhancing thermal energy storage (TES) efficiency through advanced phase change materials (PCMs) - Provides an in-depth exploration of next-generation PCMs, including salt hydrate and ionic PCMs, nano-engineered composites, bioinspired materials and smart thermo-responsive PCMs - Presents cutting-edge strategies such as nanoconfinement, polymeric modification, metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), and 3D printing to enhance PCM performance. Additionally, it covers emerging technologies like photo-switchable and magnetically responsive PCMs, which enable dynamic and controlled heat storage - By bridging fundamental principles with advanced material engineering techniques, this book equips researchers, engineers, and industry professionals with the knowledge to develop high-performance, application-specific PCMs. It serves as a comprehensive guide to overcoming existing limitations and accelerating the adoption of innovative PCMs for sustainable energy solutions

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About the author

Dr. Kalidasan Balasubramanian is a Lecturer at Sunway University, Malaysia. He holds expertise on thermal energy storage, nanomaterials, solar thermal system, and more. Dr. Kalidasan actively contributes to international research collaborations and scholarly peer review and is committed to advancing high-quality, impact-driven engineering research aligned with global sustainability goals.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.

Dr. Reji Kumar Rajamony holds a PhD in Advanced Materials from the Universiti Malaysia Pahang Al-Sultan Abdullah (UMPSA), Malaysia. He is currently working as a Professor at the SR University, Warangal, Telangana, India. His area of research is thermal energy storage, phase change materials, nano-enhanced phase change materials, photovoltaic thermal systems, and battery thermal management systems.

Adarsh Kumar Pandey is a Professor at the United Arab Emirates University, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. His research involves, but is not limited to, Sustainable Energy Technologies, Advanced Energy Materials, Nano Enhanced Phase Change Materials (NePCMs), solar PV and PVT, dye-sensitized solar cells.

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