Category: Transient Plane Source
Author(s): Andre Boden, Gregor J. F. Czempiel, Izabela Firkowska, Kati Gharagozloo-Hubmann, Stephanie Reich
Keywords: Aspect Ratio, diameter, Fillers, Interface Thermal Resistance, Length, Polymer composites, Scanning Electron Microscopy, Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), SEM, TEM, Thermal Conductivity, Transmission electron microscopy, Transmission electron microscopy (TEM)
Abstract: The effects of intrinsic thermal conductivity, carbon filler geometry, and interface thermal resistance on the effective thermal conductivity of polymer composites were investigated. It was found that the length of carbon fillers and the interface thermal resistance were the dominant factors in determining the effective thermal conductivity of the composites. The authors suggest that the most thermally conductive polymer composite would contain long carbon nanofibers that have undergone surface functionalization to reduce interface thermal resistance.
Reference: Applied Physics Letters, 102, 21 (2013) 213103
DOI: 10.1063/1.4807420