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| Open Access | CONCENTRATED SOLAR ENERGY FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF FUNCTIONAL, HIGH-ENTROPY, AND MXENE-BASED MATERIALS: THE EXPERIENCE OF UZBEKISTAN
Odilkhuja Parpiev,S.Bakhronova,Sh. Mamatkulov,O.Ruzimurodov, B.Kim , Institute of Materials Science, Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan Turin Polytechnical University in Tashkent Korea Institute of Industrial Technology (KITECH), KoreaAbstract
This paper presents an overview of Uzbekistan’s Big Solar Furnace (BSF) in Uzbekistan, one of only two megawatt-class solar furnaces worldwide, and its role in the synthesis of functional ceramics, high-entropy alloys (HEAs), and MXene-based electrodes for hydrogen production. The BSF, with a thermal capacity of 1 MW and maximum temperatures exceeding 3,000 °C, enables clean and scalable experiments in advanced materials science. We discuss experimental achievements in oxide ceramics, antireflective coatings, molten alumina, and smart greenhouse films. In addition, MXene/NF and MXene–GO–CB/NF electrodes have shown promising results for water electrolysis, with low overpotentials, large electrochemically active surface areas, and high thermodynamic efficiencies (82–88%). The integration of solar-driven materials processing and MXene-based electrocatalysts underlines Uzbekistan’s growing role in advancing sustainable, low-carbon technologies.
Keywords
Concentrated Solar Energy, Big Solar Furnace, Smart Materials, Functional Ceramics, High-Entropy Alloys, MXenes, Hydrogen Production.
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