Thermal management in energy devices
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- Submission deadline
This Collection supports and amplifies research related to SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy.
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Thermal management in energy devices addresses the control, dissipation, and utilization of heat to ensure performance, safety, and longevity across technologies such as batteries, fuel cells, power electronics, thermoelectric systems, and solar energy converters. As energy devices operate at higher power densities and under increasingly demanding conditions, heat generation becomes a critical limiting factor. Effective thermal management is therefore essential not only for preventing degradation and failure, but also for enhancing efficiency, reliability, and energy utilization in next-generation energy systems. Recent progress has been driven by advances in materials design and device architecture. High-thermal-conductivity composites, phase-change materials, thermal interface materials, and nanostructured heat spreaders are being developed to mitigate thermal hotspots. At the device and system levels, innovations in cooling strategies, including microchannel heat sinks and passive thermal regulation, are being integrated with real-time sensing and control.
This Collection highlights research that explores thermal materials, interface engineering, device-level thermal design, and coupled thermal-electrochemical or thermal-electronic modeling.
Editors
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Haishan Cao, PhD
Tsinghua University, China
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Hongsheng Dong, PhD
Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
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Matteo Fasano, PhD
Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy
