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Heterogeneous network of 2D MOFs decorated 1D CNTs imparting multiple functionalities to composite phase change materials

Show Author's Information Xuemei Diao1,  Xiaowei Zhang1( ),  Yang Li1,  Xiao Chen1,  Zhiyong Zhao1,  Peng Wang1,  Panpan Liu1,  Hongyi Gao2,3,  Ge Wang2( )
Institute of Advanced Materials, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Materials Genome Engineering, Beijing Key Laboratory of Function Materials for Molecule & Structure Construction, School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing100083, China
Shunde Innovation School, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Shunde 528399, China
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phase change material, carbon nanotube, metal-organic framework, thermal energy storage, photothermal conversion
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Diao X, Zhang X, Li Y, et al. Heterogeneous network of 2D MOFs decorated 1D CNTs imparting multiple functionalities to composite phase change materials. Nano Research Energy, 2024, https://doi.org/10.26599/NRE.2024.9120114
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Advanced multifunctional composite phase change materials (PCMs) for integrating energy storage, photothermal conversion and microwave absorption can promote the development of next-generation miniaturized electronic devices. Here, we report paraffin wax (PW)-based multifunctional composite PCMs with a hierarchical network structure assembled by two‐dimensional (2D) nickel-based metal-organic frameworks (Ni-MOFs) decorated carbon nanotubes (CNTs). The PW/CNTs@Ni-MOF composite PCMs yield an excellent photothermal energy conversion efficiency of 93.2%, as well as a good phase change enthalpy of 126.5 J/g and prominent thermal stability. Preferably, the composite PCMs also present great microwave absorption with –25.32 dB minimum reflection loss (RLmin) at 9.85 GHz. The remarkable features of the composite PCMs lie in their hierarchical network architecture and the synergistic enhancement of CNTs and MOFs, giving rise to the increased surface area, accelerated photon capture and transmission, and enhanced dielectric loss caused by polarization effects and multiple reflections, thus further boosting the latent energy storage capacity, photothermal kinetics, and microwave reflection loss. This work provides a facile and scalable approach to regulating the multifunction of composite PCMs.


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Heterogeneous network of 2D MOFs decorated 1D CNTs imparting multiple functionalities to composite phase change materials

Show Author's information Xuemei Diao1, Xiaowei Zhang1( ), Yang Li1, Xiao Chen1, Zhiyong Zhao1, Peng Wang1, Panpan Liu1, Hongyi Gao2,3, Ge Wang2( )
Institute of Advanced Materials, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Materials Genome Engineering, Beijing Key Laboratory of Function Materials for Molecule & Structure Construction, School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing100083, China
Shunde Innovation School, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Shunde 528399, China

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Advanced multifunctional composite phase change materials (PCMs) for integrating energy storage, photothermal conversion and microwave absorption can promote the development of next-generation miniaturized electronic devices. Here, we report paraffin wax (PW)-based multifunctional composite PCMs with a hierarchical network structure assembled by two‐dimensional (2D) nickel-based metal-organic frameworks (Ni-MOFs) decorated carbon nanotubes (CNTs). The PW/CNTs@Ni-MOF composite PCMs yield an excellent photothermal energy conversion efficiency of 93.2%, as well as a good phase change enthalpy of 126.5 J/g and prominent thermal stability. Preferably, the composite PCMs also present great microwave absorption with –25.32 dB minimum reflection loss (RLmin) at 9.85 GHz. The remarkable features of the composite PCMs lie in their hierarchical network architecture and the synergistic enhancement of CNTs and MOFs, giving rise to the increased surface area, accelerated photon capture and transmission, and enhanced dielectric loss caused by polarization effects and multiple reflections, thus further boosting the latent energy storage capacity, photothermal kinetics, and microwave reflection loss. This work provides a facile and scalable approach to regulating the multifunction of composite PCMs.

Keywords: phase change material, carbon nanotube, metal-organic framework, thermal energy storage, photothermal conversion

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Received: 17 October 2023
Revised: 27 November 2023
Accepted: 05 December 2023
Published: 26 February 2024

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This work is supported by the Beijing Natural Science Foundation (No. 2232053), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 52002029), Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province (No. 2022A1515011918), and Scientific and Technological Innovation Foundation of Shunde Graduate School, University of Science and Technology Beijing (No. BK20AE003). The authors thank Rong Liu from Analytical and Testing Center of Beijing Normal University for assistance with the XRD measurements.

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