Vertically aligned carbon fibers as supporting scaffolds for phase change composites with anisotropic thermal conductivity and good shape stability

Sheng, Nan; Zhu, Ruijie; Dong, Kaixin; Nomura, Takahiro; Zhu, Chunyu; Aoki, Yoshitaka; Habazaki, Hiroki; Akiyama, Tomohiro

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Vertically aligned carbon fibers as supporting scaffolds for phase change composites with anisotropic thermal conductivity and good shape stability

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Sheng, Nan, Zhu, Ruijie, Dong, Kaixin, Nomura, Takahiro, Zhu, Chunyu, Aoki, Yoshitaka, Habazaki, Hiroki, Akiyama, Tomohiro·2019·Journal of Materials Chemistry A

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Anisotropic thermally conductive and shape-stabilized phase change composites were prepared with vertically aligned carbon fibers as supporting scaffolds.

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Directly introducing high thermal conductivity additives into PCMs gives limited thermal conductivity enhancement and inevitably reduces TES density due to the occupation of inherent pores.
“Originally, additives with high thermal conductivity were directly introduced into a system to obtain thermally conductive composite PCMs; however, the enhancement of thermal conductivity was generally limited. Moreover, this strategy inevitably reduces the TES density due to the occupation of the inherent pores.[ 4 , 15 , 21 , 22 , 23 , 24 , 25 , 26 , 27 ]”
From Carbon-Based Composite Phase Change Materials for Thermal Energy Storage, Transfer, and Conversion (2021) · cites this paper as [15]
The Introduction (page unavailable) says thermally conductive additives have been introduced into PCMs. Section 3.4 (page unavailable) reports that phase-change enthalpy, an indicator of thermal storage capacity, decreases as the carbon fraction increases. The paper does not say that direct addition generally gives only limited conductivity gains or that occupation of inherent pores inevitably reduces TES density; its measured enthalpy decrease concerns its carbon-scaffold composites. (LLM, conf=0.86)
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The most popular leak-proof strategies are the construction of shape-stabilized composite PCMs and core-shell composite PCMs.
“To date, the most popular leak‐proof strategies are the construction of shape‐stabilized composite PCMs and core–shell composite PCMs.[ 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 ]”
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The thermal conductivity of vertically aligned hollow carbon-fiber/paraffin composite PCMs along the axial direction is 0.77 W mK−1, higher than the 0.58 W mK−1 along the lateral direction.
“The thermal conductivity (0.77 W mK−1) of composite PCMs along the axial direction of the aligned CFs was higher than that (0.58 W mK−1) along the lateral direction of the aligned CFs.”
From Carbon-Based Composite Phase Change Materials for Thermal Energy Storage, Transfer, and Conversion (2021) · cites this paper as [15]
The enhanced thermal conduction in cotton-derived composite PCMs was attributed to vertically aligned carbon fibers.
“This enhanced thermal conduction was attributed to the vertically aligned CFs.”
From Carbon-Based Composite Phase Change Materials for Thermal Energy Storage, Transfer, and Conversion (2021) · cites this paper as [15]

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Authors: Sheng, N., Zhu, R., Dong, K., Nomura, T., Zhu, C., Aoki, Y., Habazaki, H., & Akiyama, T.
Affiliations: Hokkaido University (JP)
Corresponding author: Zhu, Chunyu
ORCID: Sheng, Nan
Zhu, Ruijie
Dong, Kaixin
Nomura, Takahiro
Zhu, Chunyu
Aoki, Yoshitaka
Habazaki, Hiroki
Akiyama, Tomohiro
Venue: Journal of Materials Chemistry A
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
Published: 2019
Volume: 7
Issue: 9
Pages: 4934-4940
ISSN: 2050-7488 (ISSN-L)
2050-7496
DOI: 10.1039/c8ta11329g
OpenAlex: W2911932351
Cited by: 126
References: 28
Citations by year: 2026: 10 · 2025: 16 · 2024: 19 · 2023: 20 · 2022: 14 · 2021: 23 · 2020: 16 · 2019: 8
FWCI: 8.58
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: green
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Licence: rsc.li/journals-terms-of-use (am, 393 d)
Locations: Journal of Materials Chemistry A (publishedVersion)
Institutional Repositories DataBase (IRDB) (submittedVersion)
Hokkaido University Collection of Scholarly and Academic Papers (Hokkaido University) (submittedVersion)
Topics: Physical Sciences › Engineering › Mechanical Engineering › Phase Change Materials Research
Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Materials Chemistry › Thermal properties of materials
Physical Sciences › Engineering › Mechanical Engineering › Adsorption and Cooling Systems
Keywords: vertically aligned carbon fibers, phase change materials, thermally conductive composites, anisotropic thermal conductivity, shape stability, thermal energy storage

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