Journal
JOURNAL OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY
Volume 18, Issue 6, Pages 4413-4417Publisher
AMER SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHERS
DOI: 10.1166/jnn.2018.15199
Keywords
Nanocapsule; Phase Change Material; Miniemulsion Polymerization; Emulsion Polymerization; Paraffin
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Funding
- Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province [BK20141262]
- China Spark Program [2015GA690048]
- Guiding Foundation of Yancheng Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation
- Marine Equipment and Technology Institute for Jiangsu university of Science and Technology
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The fast development of solid-liquid phase change materials calls for nanomaterials with large specific surface area for rapid heat transfer and encapsulation of phase change materials to prevent potential leakage. Here we report a combined miniemulsion/emulsion polymerization method to prepare poly(styrene-co-acrylic acid)-encapsulated paraffin (paraffin@P(St-co-AA)) nanocapsules. The method could suppress the shortcomings of common miniemulsion polymerization (such as evaporation of monomer and decomposition of initiator during ultrasonication). The paraffin @ P(St-co-AA) nanocapsules are uniform in size and the polymer shell can be controlled by the weight ratio of St to paraffin. The phase change behavior of the nanocapsules is similar to that of pure paraffin. We believe our method can also be utilized to synthesize other core-shell phase change materials.
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