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Recent Progress in Solar-thermal Selective Absorber Coatings

  • XIONG Dehua ,
  • CHEN Wei ,
  • LI Hong
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  • 1. State Key Laboratory of Silicate Materials for Architectures, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China;
    2. Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China

Received date: 2013-09-29

  Revised date: 2014-01-14

  Online published: 2014-04-10

Abstract

It is urgent to solve the problem of energy shortage and the growing environmental problems, and to effectively utilize the clean and renewable solar energy via the photothermal conversion. The highly efficient solar selective absorber coating is the most critical part of solar thermal conversion devices, the property of which plays a decisive role in the device performance. This paper reviews the recent development of the solar- thermal selective absorber coatings, including the material selections, the coating structures, their preparation methods and their commercial applications. The existing problems of the solar selective coatings and their possible solutions are commented.

Cite this article

XIONG Dehua , CHEN Wei , LI Hong . Recent Progress in Solar-thermal Selective Absorber Coatings[J]. Science & Technology Review, 2014 , 32(9) : 50 -58 . DOI: 10.3981/j.issn.1000-7857.2014.09.007

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