CELLULOSE MICROFIBERS AS A VERSATILE SUPPORT FOR SHAPE-STABLE PHASE-CHANGE COMPOSITES FOR THERMAL ENERGY STORAGE

Abstract

Phase change materials (PCMs) offer an exciting way to facilitate the consumption of renewable and develop responsive energy management by storing and releasing thermal energy as latent heat of reversible phase transitions. Organic PCMs are attractive due to their high latent heat storage capacity and reliability of thermal properties, however, they lack shape stability. In our study, we propose a facile approach for the preparation of that shape-stable phase-change composites by simple adsorption of organic PCMs (as exampled by fatty acids) onto the surface of the supporting cellulose microfibrils (MFC)