The Confinement Behavior and Mechanistic Insights of Organic Phase Change Material Encapsulated in Wood Morphology Genetic Nanostructures for Thermal Energy Storage
Yang Meng, Yanping Jiang, Yuhui Chen, Jiangyu Zhang · 2024
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Yang Meng, Yanping Jiang, Yuhui Chen, and Jiangyu Zhang study how wood traps heat-storing materials in its tiny pores, in a paper from 2024. These materials soak up heat as they melt and give it back as they harden. Wood is cheap, renewable, and full of fine channels that can hold them. Yet stored heat often falls short of what theory predicts.
The team used balsa wood stripped of its glue-like lignin, leaving pores just nanometers wide. They loaded the wood with several organic heat-storing compounds. Each one behaved in its own way, shaped by its chemical groups and chain length. Bonds with the wood walls and the tight space slowed the trapped molecules. Effects grew stronger from one compound to the next, and computer checks backed the pattern. The work guides better wood-based heat storage.
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| CREATOR | Yang Meng, Yanping Jiang, Yuhui Chen, Jiangyu Zhang |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 37 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |