YANG Chen, DENG Wenzhe, MEI Yuqing, et al. Construction of cellulose-based solid-solid phase change encapsulation system and investigation on its thermal energy storage performance[J/OL]. CIESC Journal, 2026.
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YANG Chen, DENG Wenzhe, MEI Yuqing, et al. Construction of cellulose-based solid-solid phase change encapsulation system and investigation on its thermal energy storage performance[J/OL]. CIESC Journal, 2026.DOI: 10.11949/0438-1157.20260653.
Construction of cellulose-based solid-solid phase change encapsulation system and investigation on its thermal energy storage performance
Solid-solid phase change composites are typically plagued by low enthalpy and poor thermal conductivity
which severely impede their applications in fields such as battery thermal management and building energy con-servation. In this study
polyethylene glycol (PEG) and cellulose acetate (CA) were dissolved in octadecane (ODA)
and isophorone diisocyanate (IPDI) was employed to initiate the graft polymerization reaction between PEG and CA. This innovative approach enabled the synchronous realization of encapsulant synthesis and phase change material shaping
thus fabricating cellulose acetate-polyethylene glycol-octadecane (CA-PEG-ODA) composite phase change materials via a one-step method. The results demonstrate that the CA-PEG-ODA com-posites exhibit excellent morphological stability
with a maximum latent heat enthalpy of 111.10 J/g. Notably
the enthalpy remains as high as 104 J/g even after 100 thermal cycles. The incorporation of aluminum nitride (AlN) significantly enhances the thermal conductivity of CA-PEG-ODA
reaching 0.496 W/(m·K)
which repre-sents a remarkable increase of 96.8% compared with the pristine CA-PEG-ODA. In the battery thermal man-agement tests
the composite phase change materials effectively reduce the temperature of batteries during the discharge process
achieving a maximum temperature drop of 3 °C. The internal polymerization encapsulation strategy based on solid-solid phase change materials proposed in this work provides a novel insight for the effi-cient and large-scale production of shape-stabilized phase change materials.
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