The paper proposes a rapid microfluidic fabrication method for encapsulated phase change materials (EPCMs). C/TMPTA EPCMs are prepared using an immersed co-flowing capillary microfluidic device with UV-curing
supplemented by thermally conductive modification of the shell material with silicon carbide. Characterization techniques including high-speed cameras
SEM
OM
FT-IR
XRD
DSC
TGA and LFA are utilized to investigate the generation of compound droplets and the properties of EPCMs. The results show that within the selected range of flow rate parameters
the generation process of compound droplets exhibits three phenomena: dripping
core leakage and jetting. Under dripping and jetting phenomena
stable compound droplets are formed. However
when the flow rate ratio (/) is larger than 1.5 and the total flow rate () is less than 160 µL/min
the core droplet will leak
resulting in the inability to generate the composite droplet normally. The sizes of core and compound droplets decrease with an increase in the outer phase capillary number ()
while the frequency of compound droplet generation increases with . Moreover
EPCMs prepared at / of 0.5
1 and 1.5
with a of 150 µL/min
exhibit a multi-core structure
high monodispersity (with a coefficient of variation () <4%) and controllable size
ranging from 1.32 to 1.55 mm in diameter. The addition of 2wt% nano silicon carbide for modification enhances the encapsulation efficiency of EPCMs (increased by 16.17%) and thermal cycling stability
with only a 1.19% decrease in enthalpy value after 25 thermal cycles.
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