There's a silicon-valley based company that's building a combined thermal storage and TPV system: https://www.antoraenergy.com So these ideas may be get to market sooner than a typical university press release.

https://www.nrel.gov/news/features/2021/new-projects-move-th...

(some of the same people involved in this paper at NREL seem to also be collaborating with Antra, which is great to see)