摘要
We deviseda functional form stable compositephase-change materials(PCMs)toachieve a three-dimensional(3D)interconnectedporous carbon aerogel structure for encapsulating polyethyleneglycol(PEG).Anovelhomogeneity reinforced carbonaerogel witha well-interconnected porous structure was constructed bycombining a flexible carbonresource from biomass guar gum with hard-brittle carbonfrom polyimide,to overcome severeshrinkage andpoor mechanical performance of traditionalcarbon aerogel.Thesupportingcarbon aerogel-encapsulated PEG produced thenovel composite PCMswithgood structure stability andcomprehensive energy storage performance.Theresults showed thatthecomposite PCMsdisplayed awell-defined 3Dinterconnected structure,and theirenergy storage capacities were 171.5 and169.5 J/g,which changed onlyslightlyafter 100 thermalcycles,andthe compositescould maintainthe equilibrium temperature at50.0−58.1℃ for about 760.3 s.The thermal conductivityofthe compositescould reach0.62 W m^(−1) K^(−1),which effectively enhanced the thermalresponse rate.And thecomposite PCMs exhibited good leakage-proof performance andexcellent light–thermal conversion.The compressive strengthof thecomposite PCMscan improveupto 1.602 MPa.Results indicatethatthisstrategy canbe efficiently usedtodevelop novel composite PCMswithimproved comprehensive thermalperformance and high light–thermal conversion.
基金
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.51863005,51462006,51102230,51671062,51871065,and 51971068)
the Guangxi Natural Science Foundation(No.2018GXNSFDA281051,2014GXNSFAA118401,and 2020GXNSFGA297004)
the Science Research and Technology Development Program of Guangxi(AD17195073,AA19182014 and AA17202030-1)
the Guangxi Bagui Scholar Foundation,the Guangxi Collabora-tive Innovation Centre of Structure and Property for New Energy and Materials,the Guangxi Advanced Functional Materials Foundation and Application Talents Small Highlands,Chinesisch-Deutsche Kooperationsgruppe(GZ1528)
the Innovation Project of GUET Graduate Education(2019YCXS114 and 2018YJCX88).