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New shape‐stabilized paraffin/porous carbon materials derived from metal organic gel (cMOG)/boron nitride (BN) composites were prepared by the impregnation method. In the composites, paraffin was used as phase change material, while cMOG as a supporting and loading large paraffin content in the pores owing to high specific surface area and BN employed to enhance the thermal conductivity. The scanning electron microscopy images showed better filler–filler connectivity in BN/cMOG than the individual supporting materials. With the synergy of BN and cMOG, the thermal conductivity of BN/cMOG/PCM composites exhibited up to 232.1 % of pristine PCM and 82.3 % of binary BN/PCM composites at the same wt.‐% of BN. The latent heat as‐synthesized composite attains up to 163.1 J/g with up to 80 wt.‐% of paraffin retained in the composites without any leakage. In addition, the composites revealed enhanced heat transfer performance in both the solid and liquid states. Similarly, the XRD and FTIR analysis showed excellent chemical compatibility between paraffin and the supporting materials. In addition, the composite has high thermal stability, reduced supercooling extent, and better reliability after 200 times thermal cycling, which indicate a promising method for large‐scale thermal energy storage. Shape‐stabilized porous carbon materials derived from metal organic gel/BN/paraffin were prepared. They have enhanced heat transfer performance in both the solid and liquid phases and large energy storage capacity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A systematic mesoporous N-doped carbons/myristic acid-stearic acid composite materials with improved thermal conductivity, energy storage density and shape stable performance were prepared by encapsulating myristic acid-stearic acids (MA-SA) eutectic mixture into porous carbon matrixes derived from two synthesis strategies. The effect of synthesis strategies and the N species present in porous carbons on the microstructure and thermal energy storage properties of composite phase change materials were studied by various characterization techniques. The results indicated that N-doped porous carbons derived from in situ (NPC) had maximum of up to 88 wt% PCM loading with a melting latent heat of 164.33 ± 0.29 kJ/kg, which was up to 45.69% higher than that of composite PCMs by post synthesis route (MGC/MA-SA). Factors, like pore characteristics, capillary force, surface tension and additional interaction with N species present in carbon matrix played vital roles for encapsulation of MA-SA to the pores of supporting materials. Notably, NPC/MA-SA composite materials exhibited excellent thermal conductivity, 117.65% higher than pristine PCM, while 74.59% for MGC/MA-SA. The content, homogeneous distribution and graphitic nature of N as well as the interconnected porous carbons improves the heat transfer pathways in the composite PCMs during phase change process. All the prepared samples were thermally and chemically compatible even after 100 times thermal cycling, confirming that the prepared composite materials were a promising candidates for thermal management system in a medium phase transition temperatures like domestic solar hot water supply and air-conditioning purposes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]