Phase change materials (PCMs) can widely be used to absorb and release large amounts of latent heat at temperatures when the physical state changes. Heat storage systems depend mainly on the high latent heat density and small temperature intervals in PCMs during phase transition. However, there is a great leakage of current solid-liquid PCMs in the liquid phase, resulting from a large volume change above the melting point. Alternatively, the porous metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have been investigated as solid support for a variety of storage purposes. A MOFs matrix material can also be expected to deal with the leakage of a shape-stabilized composite PCM in the most practical way. It is highly demanding for the extremely large surface area, large pore volume, and chemical tunability in the MOFs as the ideal matrix for PCMs. In particular, MOFs can also be designed for several aspects, such as pore shape and size, framework topology, and surface properties in the inner channels. A combination of fatty acids and porous MOF supports can be utilized to maintain the solid shape in the liquid PCM composite, where the phase change temperature of paraffin is within the range of normal human environments. Paraffin also presents high latent heat, suitable melting temperature range, non-corrosivity/non-toxicity, excellent chemical stability, and easy availability. The outstanding energy storage density and suitable phase change temperature also allow for the paraffin highly practical in the building materials. In this study, a facile solution impregnating approach was proposed to access a novel type of shape-stabilized PCM with metal-organic frameworks as the matrix. As such, a paraffin/MOF composite PCM was developed for heating storage, where paraffin was used as a phase change core, while Fe-MIL-101-NH2 was the supporting matrix. Solvent evaporation was finally conducted to successfully prepared 40 wt%~70 wt% paraffin/Fe-MIL-101-NH2 shape-stable phase change material (ss-PCM). Scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy were also conducted to characterize the morphology and structure of ss-PCM composites. Thermal gravimetric analysis (TGA) was used to determine the thermal stability, while differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) to the supercooling, the energy storage, and thermal cycle stability of ss-PCM. SEM images showed that the maximum loading of paraffin wax was 70%, mostly distributed in the interior and external core of Fe-MIL-101-NH2. XRD and FTIR showed that the paraffin wax and Fe-MIL-101-NH2 were physically combined in the ss-PCM. DSC analysis indicated that the highest energy storage capacity (51.3 J/g) was achieved in the 70 wt% paraffin/ Fe-MIL-101-NH2. In addition, there was no significant decrease in the thermal enthalpy of 70 wt% paraffin/Fe-MIL-101-NH2 (47.6 J/g) after 50 cycles, indicating an excellent heat cycle stability. Consequently, a novel paraffin/Fe-MIL-101-NH2 composite PCM can be expected to serve as the heat storage application. This finding can also provide a novel approach to access the shape-stabilized composite PCMs, which can potentially be extended to a variety of solid-liquid phase change materials. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]