超支化聚氨酯储能和形状记忆材料的分析-analysis of hyperbranched polyurethane energy storage and shape memory materials.docx

IV IV crystal structures were spherulites, but the spherulites size were much smaller than those of PEG since the soft segment PEG’s crystallization in HB-PUPCM was confined by the hard segment. The heat storage mechanism is indeed the transition process of the soft segment of HB-PUPCM from crystalline state to amorphous one. The energy is mainly obtained from the heat coursed by entropy change between the low entropy crystal state and high entropy amorphous state. The hard segment has no contribution to the phase change heat storage, but it acts as “physical cross-links” and restricts PEG’s free movement, so HB-PUPCM still remains its solid state without free movement even when it is heated to the temperature 30-40o C above PEG’s melting point. Polyurethane with solid-solid phase change heat storage properties has two essential conditions: one is the soft domain is crystalline with high melting enthalpy(ΔH) and suitable melting temperature, another is the hard domain can bind themselves via hydrogen bonding，becoming the fixed point to keep HB-PUPCM in solid state above phase change temperature. The result indicates that the soft segment was not able to crystallize until its average molecular weight was above 2000, and the hard segment was not able to form sufficient domains until its content reaching 10wt%. The enthalpy (ΔH) and transition temperature of HB-PUPCM whose soft segment molecular weight was above 2000 were depressed with the decreasing of soft segment content due to the restriction of hard segment. The enthalpy of HB-PUPCM with the same soft segment content but different soft segment molecular weight was increasing with the soft segment molecular weight’s increasing. When the soft segment molecular weight reached over 10000, the enthalpy started to drop slightly. And the transition temperature was also increasing with the soft segment molecular weight’s increasing, when the soft segment molecular weight reached 10000, the trend of increasin