In the building and construction industry today, weather resistant and flame resistant materials have become fundamental. As such, silicone coated materials have been intensively researched, as they increase a given materials resistivity to heat and flames. Due to complications and time constraints when testing coating technologies in a lab setting, more enforcement has been placed on numerical methods. Based on stitching patterns, geometry models of the material and heat transfer ...
Author(s): H. Wang, N. Zhang, X. Zhao, Z. Zheng
This article highlights two assumptions of TPS the technique; the probe is thermally neutral, and the heat transfer is conductive. The researchers of this article mention an uncertainty of using a technique for measuring low-density and highly insulative materials. Accordingly, numerically noised thermograms of the thermal responses were recorded and applied during measurements, and the best-fitting procedure of a technique was applied. From this, it was determined that the presence ...
Author(s): D. Baillis, E. Coment, G. Flasquin, R. Coquard
The purpose of this research was to improve the thermal conductivity of boron-nitride filled epoxy composites. To complete this task, the interfacial adhesion in the composite needed to be improved. This was achieved by employing admicellar polymerization to coat the polystyrene and polymethyl methacrylate, on the boron nitride surface. The results indicated an increase in the thermal conductivity of the composite from 1.5 W/mK, with the use of untreated boron-nitride, ...
Author(s): H. Manuspiya, K. Wattanakul, N. Yanumet
Increasing the thermal conductivity of an organic phase change material, all the while maintaining a high phase change enthalpy, is a difficult task. In this study, researchers took 1-tetradecanol/Ag nanowires composites, containing various wt% of Ag nanowires, and tested their thermal conductivities and phase change enthalpies. The results suggest the PCM composite containing 62.73 wt% of Ag nanowires is the most promising candidate for thermal conductivity enhancement of organic phase ...
Author(s): D. Yang L. Sun, J. Zeng, L. Zhang, Z. Cao
Due to their high compressibility and resilience, nanofibrous aerogels (NFAs) have been proven to have positive insluative impacts on various applications with electronics and material damping. Up until this study, the fabrication of such nanofibers had proven to be very difficult. The scientists of this study homogenized nanofibre membranes, PAN/BA-a and SiO2 to create a nanofiber dispersion. This nanofiber dispersion was then freeze-dried to create uncrosslinked NFAs. The NFAs ...
Author(s): Bin Ding, Jianlong Ge, Jianyong Yu, Xiaomin Tang, Yang Si