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Preparation of low-density polyethylene/low-temperature expandable graphite composites with high thermal conductivity by an in situ expansion melt blending process

Author(s): Canhui Lu, Hejun Wu, Wei Zhang, Xinxing Zhang

Low-temperature expandable graphite (LTEG) was blended into low-density polyethylene (LDPE) to prepare composite materials with an enhanced thermal conductivity in comparison to pure LDPE. The thermal conductivity of a composite ...

Keywords: differential scanning calorimetry, Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), DSC, Electrical Conductivity, graphite, Hot Disk thermal analyzer, LDPE, mechanical properties, Polymer composites, Rheological Measurements, Scanning Electron Microscopy, Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), SEM, TGA, Thermal Conductivity, Thermogravimetric Analysis, Thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), X-ray Diffraction, X-ray diffraction (XRD), XRD

Thermal Characterization of Lauric–Stearic Acid/Expanded Graphite Eutectic Mixture as Phase Change Materials

Author(s): Hua Zhu, Ming Li, Peng Zhang, Zhaonan Meng

Expanded graphite (EG) was added to lauric acid (LA)-stearic acid (SA) phase change materials to enhance their thermal conductivities. The PCMs were prepared in varying mass fractions of LA ...

Keywords: differential scanning calorimetry, Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), DSC, graphite, pcms, phase change materials, Scanning Electron Microscope, Scanning electron microscope (SEM), SEM, TGA, Thermal Conductivity, thermal stability, Thermogravimetric Analysis, Thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), TPS, Transient Plane Source, Transient plane source (TPS) method

Thermal Composites of Biobased Polyamide with Boron Nitride Micro Networks

Author(s): Amirsaman Osia, Hani E. Naguib, Min Wen Liu, Shahriar Ghaffari Mosanenzadeh

In this paper, polyamide (PA, composed of at least 60% renewable materials) was used as a polymer matrix to prepare PA-hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) polymer composites with varying hBN contents. Two ...

Keywords: BN, boron nitride, differential scanning calorimetry, Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), DSC, Effective Thermal Conductivity, Electrical Conductivity, Electrical Impedance, hardness, Hot Disk Transient Plane Source Method, Impact Test, Polymer composites, Rheological Properties, TGA, thermal expansion, Thermo Gravimetric Analysis, Thermo Gravimetric Analysis (TGA)

Thermal properties and moisture absorption of nanofillers-filled epoxy composite thin film for electronic application

Author(s): L. C. Sim, M. Mariatti, Richard Voo

The effects of the addition of three different fillers to a polymer matrix on the thermo-physical properties of the resulting composites were investigated by the authors. Boron nitride, synthetic diamond, ...

Keywords: boron nitride, coefficient of thermal expansion, Coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE), CTE, Diamond, Epoxy, FE-SEM, Fillers, films, Hot Disk Thermal Constants Analyzer, Particle Size Analyzer, Polymer composites, Scanning Electron Microscopy, Scanning Electron Microscopy (FE-SEM), TEM, TGA, Thermal Conductivity, Thermogravimetric Analysis, Thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), thin films, Transmission electron microscopy, Transmission electron microscopy (TEM)

High thermally conductive PLA based composites with tailored hybrid network of hexagonal boron nitride and graphene nanoplatelets

Author(s): Hani E. Naguib, Saad Khalid, Shahriar Ghaffari Mosanenzadeh, Yi Cui

Polyactic acid (PLA)-micro hexagonal boron nitride (hBN)-graphene nanoplatelet (GNP) polymer composites were prepared, and the effects of varying filler contents on the thermal and mechanical properties of the ...

Keywords: BN, boron nitride, differential scanning calorimetry, Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), DSC, Effective Thermal Conductivity, Electrical Conductivity, Fillers, Gardner Impact, graphene, hardness, Hot Disk Transient Plane Source Method, Polymer composites, Scanning Electron Microscopy, Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), SEM, TGA, Thermogravimetric Analysis, Thermogravimetric analysis (TGA)

Thermal properties of green alumina porcelain

Author(s): Peter Krupa, Svetozar Malinaric

The thermal properties, as well as bulk density, and mass loss of alumina porcelain were determined as a function of firing temperature. It was found that after sintering at 1320 ºC, ...

Keywords: Alumina Porcelain, Bulk Density, ceramics, Differential Thermal Analysis, Differential Thermal Analysis (DTA), DTA, Specific Heat, TGA, Thermal Conductivity, Thermal Diffusivity, Thermodilatometry, Thermogravimetric Analysis, Thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), TPS Method, Transient Plane Source, Transient plane source (TPS) method

Physical study of room-temperature-cured epoxy/thermally reduced graphene oxides with various contents of oxygen-containing groups

Author(s): Chien-Hua Hsu, Jui-Ming Yeh, Kung-Chin Chang, Mei-Chun Lai, Min-Hsiang Hsu, Pei-Ju Liu, Tsao-Li Chuang, Wei-Ren Liu

Epoxy nanocomposites containing thermally reduced graphene oxides (TRGs) with different oxygen contents were prepared and their mechanical and thermal properties were investigated. It was found that increasing the number of ...

Keywords: DMA, Dynamic Mechanical Analysis, Dynamic Mechanical Analysis (DMA), Epoxy, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), Fourier-Transform Infrared Spectroscopy, FTIR, graphene, nanocomposites, Polymer composites, TEM, Tensile Tests, TGA, Thermal Conductivity, Thermogravimetric Analysis, Thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), TPS Technique, Transient Plane Source, Transient plane source (TPS) method, Transmission electron microscopy, Transmission electron microscopy (TEM), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS), XPS

Processing of polyurethane/carbon nanotubes composites using novel minimixer

Author(s): A. Khan, F. Piscitelli, H. Benkreira, H. S. Xia, M. Lavorgna, P. Coates, R. Patel, Y. H. Zhan

Polytetramethylene ether glycol (PTMEG) was used to functionalize multi-walled carbon nanotube (MWNT) by grafting to produce MWNT-g-PTMEG. These functionalized nanotubes were then dispersed in thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) to form a ...

Keywords: Carbon nanotubes, CNTs, differential scanning calorimeter, Differential scanning calorimeter (DSC), DMA, DSC, Dynamic Mechanical Analysis, Dynamic Mechanical Analysis (DMA), Fillers, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), Fourier-Transform Infrared Spectroscopy, FTIR, mechanical properties, nanocomposites, Polyurethane, SAXS, Scanning Electron Microscope, Scanning electron microscope (SEM), SEM, Small-Angle X-Ray Scattering, Small-Angle X-Ray Scattering (SAXS), TGA, Thermal Conductivity, thermal constant analyser, Thermogravimetric Analysis, Thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), WAXS, Wide Angle X-Ray Scattering, Wide Angle X-Ray Scattering (WAXS)

Enhancement of physical properties of electroactive polyimide nanocomposites by addition of graphene nanosheets

Author(s): Chien-Hua Hsu, Hsin-I Lu, Jui-Ming Yeh, Kuan-Yeh Huang, Kung-Chin Chang, Mei-Chun Lai, Tsao-Li Chuang, Wei-Ren Liu, You-Rong Hsiao

The thermal imidization method was used to prepare an electroactive polyimide/graphene nanocomposite (EPGN) material membrane. It was determined that the composites that were formed had improved mechanical strength, thermal ...

Keywords: CV, Cyclic Voltammetry, Cyclic Voltammetry (CV), differential scanning calorimetry, Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), DMA, DSC, Dynamic Mechanical Analysis, Dynamic Mechanical Analysis (DMA), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), Fourier-Transform Infrared Spectroscopy, FTIR, graphene, nanocomposites, Polymer composites, TEM, TGA, Thermogravimetric Analysis, Thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), TPS Technique, Transient Plane Source, Transient plane source (TPS) method, Transmission electron microscopy, Transmission electron microscopy (TEM)

Structure and oxidation resistance of micro-cellular Si–SiC foams derived from natural resins

Author(s): A. Ortona, Alain Celzard, Antonio Pizzi, C. Zollfrank, G. Amaral-Labat, S. Pusterla, V. Fierro

Si-SiC composite foams were prepared using tannin-based foams as templates. The foams were prepared by four different methods for the determination of which method would best produce a foam with ...

Keywords: Cellular Ceramics, ceramics, Mercury Porosimetry, Raman Microscopy, resin, Scanning Electron Microscopy, Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), SEM, TGA, Thermal Conductivity, Thermogravimetric Analysis, Thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), transient plane source method, X-ray Diffraction, X-ray diffraction (XRD), XRD

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Preparation of low-density polyethylene/low-temperature expandable graphite composites with high thermal conductivity by an in situ expansion melt blending process

Thermal Characterization of Lauric–Stearic Acid/Expanded Graphite Eutectic Mixture as Phase Change Materials

Thermal Composites of Biobased Polyamide with Boron Nitride Micro Networks

Thermal properties and moisture absorption of nanofillers-filled epoxy composite thin film for electronic application

High thermally conductive PLA based composites with tailored hybrid network of hexagonal boron nitride and graphene nanoplatelets

Thermal properties of green alumina porcelain

Physical study of room-temperature-cured epoxy/thermally reduced graphene oxides with various contents of oxygen-containing groups

Processing of polyurethane/carbon nanotubes composites using novel minimixer

Enhancement of physical properties of electroactive polyimide nanocomposites by addition of graphene nanosheets

Structure and oxidation resistance of micro-cellular Si–SiC foams derived from natural resins

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