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Molten salt is regarded as one of most promising candidates for solar energy storage due to possessing stable properties and large energy storage densities. However, the intrinsically low thermal conductivity of molten salt has become a bottleneck for rapid heat storage and transport. The addition of nanoparticles is generally considered to be a most effective way to improve the thermal conductivity of molten salt phase change materials (PCMs), while the phase change enthalpies of the nanocomposite phase change materials usually show two opposite trends of enhancement or decrement. Furthermore, the reason for the abnormal change of phase change enthalpy has not been clear in the literature so far, so the mechanism of change needs to be further explored. In this work, graphene nanosheets (GNS)@NaNO3 (sodium nitrate) nanocomposite phase change materials are prepared by the hydration ultrasonic method. The materials are characterized by scanning electron microscope, and the phase change characteristics are measured using differential scanning calorimeter. Molecular dynamics simulation is carried out to explain the mechanism for the formation of the NaNO3 dense layer and the non-collateral decrease of the enthalpy from the microscopic level. With the increase of GNS mass fraction, the melting point of the GNS@NaNO3 composite phase change material decreases slightly while the phase change enthalpy decreases significantly with a non-colligative trend. A 13.81% decrease of the theoretical phase change enthalpy is observed with a GNS doping ratio of 1.5%. The NaNO3 clusters observed on the surface of GNS are considered to have not melted, thereby resulting in a reduction in the phase change enthalpy. The mechanism is further investigated by molecular dynamics simulation, showing that the strong van der Waals attraction between GNS and NaNO3 leads the 2–4 Å-thick NaNO3 dense layer to form in the vicinity of GNS. With the increase of GNS mass fraction, the centroid equivalent distance between the dense layer and GNS gradually increases, which leads their mutual attraction to first increase and then weaken. When GNS mass fraction is 1.5%, the centroid equivalent distance reaches the position closest to the potential well, leading to a strongest mutual attraction. In other words, the phase change enthalpy decreases most obviously at this mass fraction. Thus, some conclusions can be drawn as follows. The type of interaction between molten salt and nano-enhancers and the position of the potential well are the fundamental reasons for the thickness of molten salt dense layer and the reduction of phase change enthalpy. The calculation of the interaction energy can be used to guide the selection of the mass fraction of the nano-enhancers, so as to avoid the loss of core material cluster and phase change enthalpy caused by the introduction of the nano-enhancers to a greatest extent. The preparation cost of the composite phase change material can also be reduced to a certain extent.
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Keywords:
- nanocomposite phase change material /
- molten salt /
- phase change characteristics /
- molecular dynamics simulation
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图 1 石墨烯纳米片@硝酸钠复合相变材料的制备流程
Figure 1. Preparation process of GNS@NaNO3.
图 2 石墨烯纳米片@硝酸钠复合相变材料的扫描电子显微照片 (a)石墨烯纳米片; (b) 纯硝酸钠; (c) 纳米片质量分数为0.5%的石墨烯纳米片@硝酸钠; (d) 纳米片质量分数为1.0%的石墨烯纳米片@硝酸钠; (e) 纳米片质量分数为1.5%的石墨烯纳米片@硝酸钠; (f) 纳米片质量分数为2.0%的石墨烯纳米片@硝酸钠
Figure 2. Scanning electron micrograph of GNS@NaNO3: (a) GNS; (b) pure NaNO3; (c) GNS@NaNO3 when GNS weight concentration is 0.5%; (d) GNS@NaNO3 when GNS weight concentration is 1.0%; (e) GNS@NaNO3 when GNS weight concentration is 1.5%; (f) GNS@NaNO3 when GNS weight concentration is 2.0%.
图 3 硝酸钠和石墨烯纳米片@硝酸钠复合相变材料的热流曲线
Figure 3. Heat flow curves of pure NaNO3 and GNS@NaNO3.
图 4 石墨烯纳米片质量分数为1.0%的石墨烯纳米片@硝酸钠复合相变材料结构模型
Figure 4. Structural model of GNS@NaNO3 when GNS weight concentration is 1.0%.
图 5 石墨烯纳米片@硝酸钠复合相变材料300 K下的均方位移
Figure 5. MSD of GNS@NaNO3 composites at 300 K.
图 6 石墨烯纳米片附近的原子分布(纳米片质量分数为1.5%的石墨烯纳米片@硝酸钠)
Figure 6. NaNO3 atomic distribution close to GNS (GNS@NaNO3 when GNS weight concentration is 1.5%).
图 7 石墨烯纳米片@硝酸钠原子间L-J相互作用示意 (a) 石墨烯纳米片质量分数为1.0% 的石墨烯纳米片@硝酸钠; (b) 石墨烯纳米片质量分数为1.5%的石墨烯纳米片@硝酸钠
Figure 7. L-J interaction between atoms in GNS@NaNO3: (a) GNS@NaNO3 when GNS weight concentration is 1.0%; (b) GNS@NaNO3 GNS weight concentration is 1.5%.
图 8 石墨烯纳米片与硝酸钠之间的相互作用能
Figure 8. Interaction energy between GNS and NaNO3.
表 1 硝酸钠和石墨烯纳米片@硝酸钠复合相变材料的相变热性能
Table 1. Phase change characteristics of pure NaNO3 and GNS@NaNO3.
样品 Tm/℃ HS,comp/(J·g–1) Theoretical HS,comp/(J·g–1) θ/% Pure NaNO3 308.00±0.57 174.00±1.62 174 100 0.5%GNS@NaNO3 306.87±0.40 153.12±1.48 173.13 88.44 1.0%GNS@NaNO3 307.91±0.55 165.24±1.68 172.26 95.92 1.5%GNS@NaNO3 307.33±0.42 147.72±1.15 171.39 86.19 2.0%GNS@NaNO3 307.46±0.60 160.08±1.53 170.52 93.88 
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表 2 各原子到石墨烯纳米片的质心等效距离
Table 2. Centroid equivalent distance of atoms in NaNO3 dense layer to GNS.
原子种类 Centroid equivalent distance/Å 0.5% 1.0% 1.5% 2.0% Na 3.31 3.11 3.42 3.92 N 3.23 3.63 4.17 4.53 O 3.23 3.55 4.23 5.10
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[1] Lee D, Jo B 2021 Int. J. Energy Res. 45 3231
Google Scholar
[2] Xiong Y X, Wang Z Y, Sun M Y, Wu Y T, Xu P, Qian X, Li C, Ding Y L, Ma C F 2021 Int. J. Energy Res. 45 5248
Google Scholar
[3] Kumar N, Hirschey J, LaClair T J, Gluesenkamp K R, Graham S 2019 J. Energy Storage 24 100794
Google Scholar
[4] Choi D H, Lee J, Hong H, Kang Y T 2014 Int J. Refrig. 42 112
Google Scholar
[5] Wang M R, Kang Q J, Pan N 2009 Appl. Therm. Eng. 29 418
Google Scholar
[6] Kim Y S, Kim D, Martin K J, Yu C, Grunlan J C 2010 Macromol. Mater. Eng. 295 431
Google Scholar
[7] Shin D, Banerjee D 2010 J. Heat Transfer 133 024501
Google Scholar
[8] Shin D, Banerjee D 2011 Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer 54 1064
Google Scholar
[9] Jo B, Banerjee D 2014 Acta Mater. 75 80
Google Scholar
[10] Qiao G, Alexiadis A, Ding Y L 2017 Powder Technol. 314 660
Google Scholar
[11] Xiong Y X, Wang Z Y, Xu P, Chen H B, Wu Y T 2019 Energy Procedia 158 5551
Google Scholar
[12] Li Z, Li B R, Du X Z, Wu H W 2020 Renewable Energy 146 816
Google Scholar
[13] Engelmann S, Hentschke R 2019 Sci. Rep. 9 1
Google Scholar
[14] Li J F, Lu W, Zeng Y B, Luo Z P 2014 Sol. Energy Mater. Sol. Cells 128 48
Google Scholar
[15] Liu Y S, Yang Y Z 2017 Appl. Therm. Eng. 124 533
Google Scholar
[16] Yu Q, Lu Y W, Zhang C C, Wu Y T, Sunden B 2019 Sol. Energy Mater. Sol. Cells 201 110055
Google Scholar
[17] Park S, Ruoff R S 2009 Nat. Nanotechnol. 4 217
Google Scholar
[18] Morelos-Gomez A, Terashima S, Yamanaka A, Cruz-Silva R, Ortiz-Medina J, Sánchez-Salas R, Fajardo-Díaz J L, Muñoz-Sandoval E, López-Urías F, Takeuchi K 2021 Carbon 181 118
Google Scholar
[19] Yan X X, Zhao H B, Feng Y H, Qiu L, Lin L, Zhang X X, Ohara T 2022 Compos. B Eng. 228 109435
Google Scholar
[20] D’Aguanno B, Karthik M, Grace A, Floris A 2018 Sci. Rep. 8 10485
Google Scholar
[21] Jayaraman S, Thompson A P, von Lilienfeld O A, Maginn E J 2010 Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 49 559
Google Scholar
[22] Plimpton S 1995 J. Comput. Phys. 117 1
Google Scholar
[23] Stuart S J, Tutein A B, Harrison J A 2000 J. Chem. Phys. 112 6472
Google Scholar
[24] Jones J E 1924 Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 106 463
Google Scholar
[25] Xiong Y H, Wu H, Gao J S, Chen W, Zhang J C, Yue Y N 2019 Acta Phys. Chim. Sin. 35 1150
Google Scholar
[26] Li Z, Cui L, Li B R, Du X Z 2020 Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer 153 119578
Google Scholar
[27] Yang M J, Stipp S S, Harding J 2008 Cryst. Growth Des. 8 4066
Google Scholar
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