Abstract
Microencapsulated phase change materials (MPCMs) have gained widespread application in energy-efficient buildings, aiming to improve thermal comfort and reduce energy consumption. To enhance the engineering feasibility of MPCMs, researchers are now focusing on developing MPCMs with multifunctional properties, beyond single thermal storage functionality. In this study, we proposed a novel and straightforward approach to fabricate multifunctional MPCMs with BaCO3 as shell and a core composed of binary phase change materials (PCMs) and lipophilic-modified graphite (MG) via self-assembly method. The incorporation of BaCO3 shell provides MPCMs with additional resistance to ionizing radiation pollution due to the high atomic number element Ba. Additionally, the incorporation of MG into PCMs enhances its temperature sensitivity. The thermal analysis indicates that the binary PCMs’ composition in MPCMs results in two phase transition temperatures at 3.3 °C and 26.4 °C, making them capable of thermal storage in line with comfortable residential temperatures across different seasons. Furthermore, MPCMs were introduced into cement paste (CPM) and used to construct cement chambers. Adding 10 wt% MPCMs in the CPM chambers placed outdoors in Wuhan (from June 7th to June 9th) led to a 23.8 % decrease in temperature fluctuations compared to the reference sample. Radiation shielding results indicated that the linear attenuation coefficient (μ) of CPM increased by 58.7 %, due to enhanced incoherent scattering and photoelectric effects between high atomic number elements and photons. Additionally, XCOM simulations predicted a strong correlation between MPCM content and μ values, with particularly high accuracy at low photon energies. Overall, the multifunctional MPCMs developed in this study not only offers a new route for reducing residential energy consumption and shielding ionizing pollution, but also broadens the applicability of traditional PCMs in the building and other fields.
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