Polyurethane/<i>n</i>-Octadecane Phase-Change Microcapsules via Emulsion Interfacial Polymerization: The Effect of Paraffin Loading on Capsule Shell Formation and Latent Heat Storage Properties.


Voronin, Denis V ORCID: 0000-0002-1960-6737, Sitmukhanova, Eliza, Mendgaziev, Rais I, Rubtsova, Maria I ORCID: 0000-0002-3048-8495, Kopitsyn, Dmitry ORCID: 0000-0002-5791-4917, Cherednichenko, Kirill A ORCID: 0000-0002-1868-8232, Semenov, Anton P ORCID: 0000-0003-0660-6233, Fakhrullin, Rawil ORCID: 0000-0003-2015-7649, Shchukin, Dmitry G ORCID: 0000-0002-2936-804X and Vinokurov, Vladimir (2023) Polyurethane/<i>n</i>-Octadecane Phase-Change Microcapsules via Emulsion Interfacial Polymerization: The Effect of Paraffin Loading on Capsule Shell Formation and Latent Heat Storage Properties. Materials (Basel, Switzerland), 16 (19). 6460-.

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Abstract

Organic phase-change materials (PCMs) hold promise in developing advanced thermoregulation and responsive energy systems owing to their high latent heat capacity and thermal reliability. However, organic PCMs are prone to leakages in the liquid state and, thus, are hardly applicable in their pristine form. Herein, we encapsulated organic PCM <i>n</i>-Octadecane into polyurethane capsules via polymerization of commercially available polymethylene polyphenylene isocyanate and polyethylene glycol at the interface oil-in-water emulsion and studied how various <i>n</i>-Octadecane feeding affected the shell formation, capsule structure, and latent heat storage properties. The successful shell polymerization and encapsulation of <i>n</i>-Octadecane dissolved in the oil core was verified by confocal microscopy and Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy. The mean capsule size varied from 9.4 to 16.7 µm while the shell was found to reduce in thickness from 460 to 220 nm as the <i>n</i>-Octadecane feeding increased. Conversely, the latent heat storage capacity increased from 50 to 132 J/g corresponding to the growth in actual <i>n</i>-Octadecane content from 25% to 67% as revealed by differential scanning calorimetry. The actual <i>n</i>-Octadecane content increased non-linearly along with the <i>n</i>-Octadecane feeding and reached a plateau at 66-67% corresponded to 3.44-3.69 core-to-monomer ratio. Finally, the capsules with the reasonable combination of structural and thermal properties were evaluated as a thermoregulating additive to a commercially available paint.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: elastic polyurethane, encapsulation, interfacial polymerization, phase-change materials, polyisocyanate, thermoregulating paint
Divisions: Faculty of Science and Engineering > School of Physical Sciences
Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 10 Nov 2023 15:36
Last Modified: 10 Nov 2023 15:36
DOI: 10.3390/ma16196460
Open Access URL: https://doi.org/10.3390/ma16196460
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URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3176733
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