Anchored in the expertise of the Active energy Systems founding partners in interfacial engineering, the firm's achievement have enabled led to the discovery of a new phenomenon: Icephobic Heat Exchange where a cooling surface repels freezing water. Leveraging on that finding, the firm is addressing developiment of Enhanced Ice Energy Storage - an enhanced form of ice thermal energy storage. The effort organizes not only around opening up current ice energy storage markets such as comfort cooling and natural gas plant cooling, but also to address enabling a newer form of electricity storage - employing a smaller, more efficient coil leads to enhanced ice energy storage that, in turn, could mean lower cost and improved performance.
