Synthesis and thermal properties of novel microencapsulated phase-change materials with binary cores and epoxy polymer shells

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• 作者：Kun Wei ; Biao Ma ; Hainian Wang ; Yu Liu ; Yu Luo
• 关键词：Phase transformation ; Thermal properties ; Microstructure ; Microencapsulate ; Epoxy resin
• 刊名：Polymer Bulletin
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：74
• 期：2
• 页码：359-367
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• 刊物类别：Chemistry and Materials Science
• 刊物主题：Polymer Sciences; Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics; Characterization and Evaluation of Materials; Physical Chemistry;
• 出版者：Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• ISSN：1436-2449
• 卷排序：74

文摘

A series of novel epoxy polymer shell microcapsules with n-tetradecane and dimethylbenzene as binary core materials are successfully synthesized via interfacial polymerization. Dimethylbenzene is used as the solvent for epoxy and n-tetradecane. The chemical structure, surface morphology, and thermal properties of the microencapsulated phase-change materials (micro-PCMs) are characterized by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, differential scanning calorimetry, thermogravimetric analysis, scanning electron microscopy, and transmission electron microscope. Results show that the micro-PCMs have relatively spherical profiles and smooth surfaces with diameters ranging from 10 to 70 μm. The epoxy shell successfully encapsulates the binary core. Phase-change enthalpy and binary core content in the micro-PCMs increase with the increasing mass ratio of the binary core to the epoxy resin. The micro-PCMs degrade in two steps, and the resulting microcapsules exhibit good thermal stabilities. The degradation temperature decreases, as the core-to-shell mass ratio increases.