• 文献标题:   Lignin-assisted construction of well-defined 3D graphene aerogel/PEG form-stable phase change composites towards efficient solar thermal energy storage
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   WEI D, WU CX, JIANG G, SHENG XX, XIE YH
  • 作者关键词:   graphene aerogel, lignin, high absorption, phase change composite, thermal energy storage
  • 出版物名称:   SOLAR ENERGY MATERIALS SOLAR CELLS
  • ISSN:   0927-0248 EI 1879-3398
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  • 被引频次:   41
  • DOI:   10.1016/j.solmat.2021.111013 EA FEB 2021
  • 出版年:   2021

▎ 摘  要

To counter the underutilization and pollution relative to lignin, a novel strategy was adopted, where lignin was introduced as a modifier to enhance graphene aerogel (GA), resulting in the lignin-modified graphene aerogel (LGA) with an ultralow density (2.80 g/cm(3)). With the help of lignin, a well-defined 3D porous structure was successfully constructed in LGA with homogenous distribution of lignin, which was beneficial for supporting and extending GA skeleton that originally displayed significant shrinkage. The LGA skeleton achieved an extraordinarily high absorption of PEG (similar to 99.0 wt%), which was higher than that of GA-based form-stable phase change materials whose absorption rate was already topped. Meantime, PEG@LGA exhibited not only reinforced light absorption in the whole light range from NIR to UV light benefitting to solar-to-thermal conversion, but also improved thermal stability and reusability as well as high latent heat efficiency (96.71%) and relative latent heat efficiency (98.41%). The material shows great potentials in energy storage and thermal management whose fabrication method at the same time paves a facile way for lignin utilization and valorization.