Abbas Rezaee Shirin-Abadi - Polymer Laboratory, Chemistry Department, School of Science, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
Zeinab Alinezhad - Polymer Science Department, Iran Polymer & Petrochemical Institute, Tehran, Iran
Fahimeh Khakzad - Polymer Science Department, Iran Polymer & Petrochemical Institute, Tehran, Iran
Maryam Ghasemi - Polymer Science Department, Iran Polymer & Petrochemical Institute, Tehran, Iran

Nowadays microcapsules are applied in versatile fields such as adhesives, drugs, catalysts and phase change material (PCM). In industrial applications, microcapsule production time during thepolymerization process is a key factor to minimize the energy consumption and increase the productivity.In this work, with a new approach, we investigated shell formation of melamine-formaldehyde (MF) microcapsules through interfacial polymerization containing n-hexadecane (HD)by sampling and analyzing to obtain a minimum batch time and reaching appropriate thermal properties