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Phase change materials for smart textiles – An overview

Recent developments in phase change materials for energy storage applications: A review

Energy storage technologies, including storage types, categorizations and comparisons, are critically reviewed. Most energy storage technologies are considered, including electrochemical and battery energy storage, thermal energy storage, thermochemical energy storage, flywheel energy storage, compressed air energy storage, pumped energy storage, magnetic energy storage, chemical and hydrogen energy storage. Recent research on new energy storage types as well as important advances and developments in energy storage, are also included throughout.

A review of energy storage types, applications and recent developments

Microencapsulation of phase change materials (PCMs) is an effective way of enhancing their thermal conductivity and preventing possible interaction with the surrounding and leakage during the melting process, where there is no complete overview of the several methods and techniques for microencapsulation of different kinds of PCMs that leads to microcapsules with different morphology, structure, and thermal properties. In this paper, microencapsulation methods are perused and classified into three categories, i.e. physical, physic-chemical, and chemical methods. It summarizes the techniques used for microencapsulation of PCMs and hence provides a useful tool for the researchers working in this area. Among all the microencapsulation methods, the most common methods described in the literature for the production of microencapsulated phase change materials (MEPCMs) are interfacial polymerization, suspension polymerization, coacervation, emulsion polymerization, and spray drying.

A review of microencapsulation methods of phase change materials (PCMs) as a thermal energy storage (TES) medium

Developments in organic solid–liquid phase change materials and their applications in thermal energy storage

Comb-like polymers with flexible side chains chemically pended onto a polymeric backbone afford some unusual properties due to their hierarchical structures, such as nanoscale confined crystallisation, phase transition and conformational variations, length scale effects, etc Considerable attention has been paid to these featured polymers, regarding their importance in understanding the correlation between hierarchical structure and the assembled morphologies In this review, we reviewed the recent research progress on the structure–property correlations of comb-like polymers This article brings together and highlights the fabrication, structure determination and morphology characterization for comb-like polymers, especially for nanostructured packing patterns and frustrated mobility of chain segments from the selected examples

Frustrated crystallisation and hierarchical self-assembly behaviour of comb-like polymers

Novel acid-base hybrid membrane based on amine-functionalized reduced graphene oxide and sulfonated polyimide for vanadium redox flow battery

Novel graphitic carbon nitride nanosheets/sulfonated poly(ether ether ketone) acid-base hybrid membrane for vanadium redox flow battery

Fabrication and morphological characterization of microencapsulated phase change materials (MicroPCMs) and macrocapsules containing MicroPCMs for thermal energy storage

This work prepares (3-aminopropyl) trimethoxysilane (APTMS)-functionalized reduced graphene oxide (APTMS-rGO)/polyimide (PI) composite (APTMS-rGO/PI) through in-situ polymerization. NH2-functionalized rGO coupled by APTMS demonstrates the good reinforced efficiency in mechanical and thermal properties, which is ascribed to the covalent-functionalized PI matrix by APTMS-rGO sheets. The uniform dispersion of APTMS-rGO increases the glass transition temperature (Tg) and the thermal decomposition temperature (Td), exhibiting 21.7 °C and 44 °C improvements, respectively. The tensile strength of the composites with 0.3 wt% APTMS-rGO is 31% higher than that of neat PI, and Young’s modulus is 35% higher than that of neat PI. Raman spectroscopy show the obvious G band shift, and also clearly demonstrates the enhanced interfacial interaction between rGO nanofillers and PI matrix. The high mechanical property of the APTMS-rGO/PI composites is attributed to the covalent functionalized GO by NH2 groups and its good dispersion in comparison with GO.

Haifeng Shi

Papers

Frustrated crystallisation and hierarchical self-assembly behaviour of comb-like polymers

Novel acid-base hybrid membrane based on amine-functionalized reduced graphene oxide and sulfonated polyimide for vanadium redox flow battery

Novel graphitic carbon nitride nanosheets/sulfonated poly(ether ether ketone) acid-base hybrid membrane for vanadium redox flow battery

Fabrication and morphological characterization of microencapsulated phase change materials (MicroPCMs) and macrocapsules containing MicroPCMs for thermal energy storage

Enhanced stress transfer and thermal properties of polyimide composites with covalent functionalized reduced graphene oxide