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MACROMOLECULES
Volume 52, Issue 11, Pages 4222-4231Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.9b00384
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- National Key R&D Program of China [2016YFA0202302]
- National Natural Science Funds for Distinguished Young Scholars [51425306]
- State Key Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China [51633007]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51573125, 51573147, 51803151]
- National Outstanding Youth Talent Program (2019)
- Scientific and Technological Commission of China
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Deformation-controlled solar thermal storage and release are important for thermal management of dynamic systems. However, few researchers have examined cyclic solid-state solar thermal utilization with different deformations. A uniform flexible stretchable solar thermal fuel film is presented using polynorbornene-templated azobenzene (PNB-Azo) with ring-opening metathesis polymerization and covalent grafting. This film has a high degree of isomerization and good storage room-temperature stretching stability compared to push-pull electronic interaction. At 20% strain rate, the film combines high-degree photocharging (85%), high energy density (49.0 Wh kg(-1)), and high rate of heat release induced by blue light (475 nm) at room temperature. Greater free volume improves isomerization and the first-order kinetic constant is increased by 1 order of magnitude. Reversible electric-driven dynamic stretching during charging and discharging enables PNB-Azofingers to release heat more rapidly than static stretched film, resulting in a temperature increase of 1.5 degrees C. The result indicates that PNB-Azofilm can be used as a high-power dynamic solar heat source by controlling the deformation.
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