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Development of novel biomass hybrid aerogel supported composite phase change materials with improved light-thermal conversion and thermal energy storage capacity

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Phase change materials (PCMs) have shown great application potential in sustainable energy utilization. The green preparation and efficient application are both focus of PCMs in research. In this paper, without any carbonized process under high temperature, bio-based sodium alginate (SA) and different content of ZrP nanosheets modified by PDA were used to prepare intrinsic framework materials (SA@ZrP) with sensitive lighting absorbance. Polyethylene glycol (PEG)/SA@ZrP with shape stability was fabricated via the vacuum impregnation method. Among them, CPCM5 (SA:PDA@ZrP = 50:50) exhibited excellent thermal storage and cycling stability. Compared with CPCM0 (SA:PDA@ZrP = 100:0), the melting enthalpy (159.8 J/g) and freezing enthalpy (159.3 J/g) of CPCM5 increased 16.8% and 15.4%, respectively. After 100 thermal cycles, there was no significant difference in the latent heat during meting (159.02 J/g) and freezing (157.36 J/g) process. Superior light-thermal performance of CPCM5 also performed during photothermal conversion. Therefore, with the environmentally friendly and low-cost prepared process while excellent thermal properties, PEG/SA@ZrP shows widen application prospects in the photothermal storage and conversion field.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 52003111) and the Science and Technology Planning Project of Guangdong Province (No. 2016A010103038); the work was also financially supported by the special funds of key disciplines construction from Guangdong and Zhongshan cooperating; J. H. acknowledges the support from the Opening Project of Key Laboratory of Polymer Processing Engineering (South China University of Technology), Ministry of Education, (Grant No. KFKT2001). The authors acknowledge the financial support of Taif University Researchers Supporting Project number (TURSP-2020/158), Taif University, Taif, Saudi Arabia.

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  1. School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Zhongshan, 528458, China

    Dan Wei

  2. Department of Polymeric Materials and Engineering, School of Materials and Energy, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510006, China

    Mengman Weng, Xinxin Sheng & Jintao Huang

  3. Department of Chemistry, College of Science, Taif University, P.O. Box 11099, Taif, 21944, Saudi Arabia

    M. H. H. Mahmoud

  4. Department of Food Science and Nutrition, College of Science, Taif University, P.O. box 11099, Taif, 21944, Saudi Arabia

    Ashraf Y. Elnaggar & Islam H. El Azab

  5. Key Laboratory of Polymer Processing Engineering, Ministry of Education, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510640, China

    Jintao Huang

  6. Guangdong Cosmetics Engineering & Technology Research Center, Guangdong, Zhongshan, 528458, China

    Dan Wei

  7. College of Materials Science and Engineering, Taiyuan University of Science and Technology, Taiyuan, 030024, China

    Mina Huang

  8. Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, 11884, Egypt

    Zeinhom M. El-Bahy

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Wei, D., Weng, M., Mahmoud, M.H.H. et al. Development of novel biomass hybrid aerogel supported composite phase change materials with improved light-thermal conversion and thermal energy storage capacity. Adv Compos Hybrid Mater 5, 1910–1921 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42114-022-00519-x

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