In this paper, phase change material hydroxypropyl methylcellulose (HPMC) was chosen to investigate the influence of small molecular weak acids on its phase transition temperature. The results showed that all of the chosen small molecular weak acids such as acrylic acid (AA), methacrylic acid (MAA), DL-lactic acid (LA), citric acid (CA) and acetic acid (AAc) can trigger the decrease of phase transition temperature of HPMC at different pH. With the increase of pH, AA, LA, CA and AAc can further lower the phase transition temperature, on the contrary, the phase transition temperature of HPMC increased with MAA. The change range of LCST was largest around pKa compared with other pH values because triggering effect changed gradually from hydrogen bonding effect to salt effect upon the increase of pH. Besides, phase transition temperature can also be reduced by the increase of acid concentration. This is attributed to smaller distance between molecules caused by higher concentration leading to stronger hydrogen bonding effect or salt effect. This paper provided a new perspective to modulate the LCST of phase change material by small molecular weak acids at different pH.
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