Open Journal of Civil Engineering, 2016, 6, 577-594 http://www.scirp.org/journal/ojce ISSN Online: 2164-3172 ISSN Print: 2164-3164 DOI: 10.4236/ojce.2016.64048 September 16, 2016 Intersheet Distance Modeling and Thermal Characterization of New Micro/Nano-Composites Composed by Clay Matrix and PEG 6000 Addition Iatimad Akhrif 1 , Mostapha El Jai 2 , Laila Mesrar 1 , Raouf Jabrane 1 1 Geosciences and Environment Laboratory, Faculty of Sciences and Techniques, Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah University, Fez, Morocco 2 Advenced Materials & Applications Research Team, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’ Arts & Métiers de Meknès, Moulay Ismail University, Meknes, Morocco Abstract 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 spe- cific melting enthalpy of the polymer within the natural clay matrix; by the way this enthalpy constitutes the specific heat stocked in the materials. Keywords Kaolinite/Illite, Micro and Nanocomposite/Clay Matrix, Phase Chage Materials, PolyEthylene Glycol 6000 Thermal Analysis, DRX Characterization, Differential Scanning Calorimetery, Transformation Enthalpy, Latent Heat 1. Introduction Recently, the Phase Change Materials (PCM) begin to constitute an important issue for How to cite this paper: Akhrif, I., El Jai, M., Mesrar, L. and Jabrane, R. (2016) Inter- sheet Distance Modeling and Thermal Cha- racterization of New Micro/Nano-Compo- sites Composed by Clay Matrix and PEG 6000 Addition. Open Journal of Civil Engi- neering, 6, 577-594. http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/ojce.2016.64048 Received: June 1, 2016 Accepted: September 12, 2016 Published: September 16, 2016 Copyright © 2016 by authors and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY 4.0). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Open Access