Issue 10, 2021

Scalable and highly efficient high temperature solar absorber coatings based on high entropy alloy nitride AlCrTaTiZrN with different antireflection layers

Abstract

The functional application of high entropy alloys, which emerge as a novel multi-principal component alloy, has been constantly expanding in the field of solar photothermal harvesting from optical materials to high temperature materials due to their excellent properties. A solar spectrally selective absorbing coating requires such materials that show not only outstanding optical properties but also prominent thermal stability. It is desirable but challenging to fabricate high performance solar absorbing coatings. A prospective strategy for the preparation of solar absorbing coatings is the introduction of high entropy alloys. In this work, we have developed a simple, cost-conscious, scalable and highly efficient solar selective absorbing coating using a single layer high entropy nitride AlCrTaTiZrN by choosing appropriate elemental compositions. The as-deposited coatings show an outstanding spectral selectivity of α/ε = 92.8%/5.1% or 91.6%/5.1%. High temperature thermal stability tests are performed in depth, indicating that the coating could endure annealing treatment at 800 °C for 2 h with insignificant reflectance spectrum variation. A prolonged period of thermal stability characterization presents that this coating could maintain good optical performance after annealing at 650 °C for 300 h. Furthermore, high temperature thermal emittance can be suppressed to as low as 15.4% at 600 °C, which contributes to the state-of-the-art photothermal conversion efficiency under 100 suns (87.7% at 600 °C, and 84.6% at 650 °C). Overall, the high entropy nitride AlCrTaTiZrN based coating contributes to good thermal stability and optical properties, showing great potential for extensive applications in solar energy harvesting.

Graphical abstract: Scalable and highly efficient high temperature solar absorber coatings based on high entropy alloy nitride AlCrTaTiZrN with different antireflection layers

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
13 Oct 2020
Accepted
27 Jan 2021
First published
28 Jan 2021

J. Mater. Chem. A, 2021,9, 6413-6422

Scalable and highly efficient high temperature solar absorber coatings based on high entropy alloy nitride AlCrTaTiZrN with different antireflection layers

C. He, X. Gao, D. Yu, X. Qiu, H. Guo and G. Liu, J. Mater. Chem. A, 2021, 9, 6413 DOI: 10.1039/D0TA09988K

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