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Fabrication of LiOH-metal organic framework derived hierarchical porous host carbon matrix composites for seasonal thermochemical energy storage

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By virtue of its long lifespan and outstanding storage intensity with near-zero heat loss, salt hydrate thermochemical energy storage (TES) materials provide a feasible option for the effective use of renewable energy and overcoming its unsynchronized supply and demand. Here, an activated porous carbon originating from the zeolite imidazolate framework (ZHCM) is fabricated and served as the carbon matrix for the LiOH TES material. The as-synthesized Li/ZHCM2-40 not only has excellent storage intensity (maximum 2414.2 kJ·kg−1) with low charging temperature, but also shows great hydration properties stemming from the ultrahigh surface area and hierarchical porous structure of ZHCM2. Besides, this composite material exhibits superior thermal conductivity, while its storage intensity is only attenuated by 10.2% after 15 times of consecutive charge—discharge process, revealing its outstanding cycle stability. And the numerical simulation results also demonstrate its superior heat transfer performance. The developed LiOH TES composite may afford a new avenue for efficient low-grade thermochemical energy storage and liberate the possibility of further exploration of metal organic frameworks derived porous carbon matrix in the future.

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Acknowledgements

The authors appreciate the support from the Key-Area Research and Development Program of Guangdong Province (No. 2020B0202010004), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 52071192), and the Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) (No. QYZDY-SSW-JSC038).

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  1. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan, 030024, China

    Xiangyu Yang & Jianguo Zhao

  2. Institute of Carbon Materials Science, Shanxi Datong University, Datong, 037009, China

    Shijie Li & Jianguo Zhao

  3. Key Laboratory of Renewable Energy, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of New and Renewable Energy Research and Development, Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, 510640, China

    Xiangyu Yang & Hongyu Huang

  4. Guangdong Intelligent Filling Technology Limited Company, Foshan, 528137, China

    Lisheng Deng

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Yang, X., Li, S., Zhao, J. et al. Fabrication of LiOH-metal organic framework derived hierarchical porous host carbon matrix composites for seasonal thermochemical energy storage. Nano Res. 15, 8028–8038 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-022-4415-2

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