Author(s)

Iatimad Akhrif¹, Mostapha El Jai², Laila Mesrar¹, Raouf Jabrane¹

¹Geosciences and Environment Laboratory, Faculty of Sciences and Techniques, Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah University, Fez, Morocco.
²Advenced Materials & Applications Research Team, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’ Arts & Métiers de Meknès, Moulay Ismail University, Meknes, Morocco.

Nowadays, the energetic efficiency becomes one of the major interests of the global society. Thus, the energetic challenges of the new century enforce the scientific and industrial environment to the development of new efficient materials, which present more than the classical thermal properties, according to the energy storage, energy consumption and other specific needs. In this context, the present work constitutes the third step of the development of a new kind of composite materials (micro-composites and nano-composites), using natural marl (clay) clay and biodegradable polymer, which is the PolyEthylene Glycol 6000 (PEG 6000). This step corresponds to characterization of the variation of the specific heat (denoted Cp) of the materials elaborated. So, in order to estimate the capacity of thermal energy adsorption, we utilized a SHIMATZU-DSC 60 Differential Scanning Calorimeter. The main results present the evolution of the Cp according to the PEG 6000 doping and also the specific melting enthalpy of the polymer within the natural clay matrix; by the way this enthalpy constitutes the specific heat stocked in the materials.

Kaolinite/Illite, Micro and Nanocomposite/Clay Matrix, Phase Chage Materials, PolyEthylene Glycol 6000 Thermal Analysis, DRX Characterization, Differential Scanning Calorimetery, Transformation Enthalpy, Latent Heat

Akhrif, I. , Jai, M. , Mesrar, L. and Jabrane, R. (2016) Intersheet Distance Modeling and Thermal Characterization of New Micro/Nano-Composites Composed by Clay Matrix and PEG 6000 Addition. Open Journal of Civil Engineering, 6, 577-594. doi: 10.4236/ojce.2016.64048.