Excellently balanced water-intercalation-type heat-storage oxide.

ABSTRACT: Importance of heat storage materials has recently been increasing. Although various types of heat storage materials have been reported to date, there are few well-balanced energy storage materials in terms of long lifetime, reversibility, energy density, reasonably fast charge/discharge capability, and treatability. Here we report an interesting discovery that a commonly known substance, birnessite-type layered manganese dioxide with crystal water (δ-type K_0.33MnO₂⋅ nH₂O), exhibits a water-intercalation mechanism and can be an excellently balanced heat storage material, from the above views, that can be operated in a solid state with water as a working pair. The volumetric energy density exceeds 1000 MJ m^-3 (at n ~ 0.5), which is close to the id

SUBMITTER: Hatakeyama T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8931080 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature