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NANO RESEARCH
卷 15, 期 9, 页码 8065-8075出版社
TSINGHUA UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-022-4450-z
关键词
thermal energy storage; shape-stability; honeycomb; thermal conductivity; solar thermal conversion
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资金
- China National Key Research and Development Plan Project [2018YFA0702300]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51820105010, 52076106]
This study presents an artificial honeycomb-honey based on TiN nanoparticles decorated porous AlN skeletons-PCMs composites, featuring excellent thermal conductivity and energy storage capacity, suitable for rapid, efficient, stable, and compact solar capture and thermal energy storage.
Phase change materials (PCMs) are popular solutions to tackle the unbalance of thermal energy supply and demand, but suffer from low thermal conductivity and leakage problems. Inspired by how honeybees store honey, we propose artificial honeycomb-honey for excellent solar and thermal energy storage capacity based on TiN nanoparticles decorated porous AlN skeletons-PCMs composites. The thermal conductivity of composites achieves 21.58 W/(m.K) at AlN loading of 20 vol.%, superior to the state-of-the-art ceramic-based composites. The charging/discharging time is reduced to about half of pure PCMs with shape-stability and thermal reliability well maintained over 500 melting/freezing cycles. The underlying mechanism can be attributed to the combination of single-crystal AlN whiskers with few crystal defects and reduced phonon scattering, as well as vertically arranged three-dimantional (3D) heat conduction channels. A rapid and efficient solar thermal storage is also demonstrated with solar thermal storage efficiency achieving a high value of 92.9% without employing additional spectrum selective coatings. This is benefited from high thermal conductivity and full-spectrum solar absorptance of up to 95% induced by plasmonic resonances of TiN nanoparticles. In addition, by embedding LiNO3-NaCl eutectics, the phase change enthalpy of composites reaches as high as 208 kJ/kg, making high energy storage density and fast energy storage rate compatible. This work offers new routes to achieve rapid, efficient, stable, and compact solar capture and thermal energy storage.
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