Researchers at the International Advanced Research Centre for Powder Metallurgy and New Materials (ARCI), an autonomous institute under India’s Department of Science and Technology ( DST ), have developed a new thermal energy storage material that could improve the performance and reduce the cost of thermal batteries used in concentrated solar power plants and industrial waste heat recovery systems. The ARCI research team, led by Mani Karthik, developed a scalable and cost-effective process to p