Category: Transient Plane Source
Author(s): Alexander A. Balandin, Pradyumna Goli
Keywords: Fillers, graphene, lithium-ion batteries, pcms, phase change materials, Thermal Conductivity, TPS Technique, Transient Plane Source, Transient plane source (TPS) method
Abstract: The potential of graphene and few-layer graphene to be used as fillers in a paraffin wax phase change material (PCM) was evaluated. The goal was to prepare a composite PCM with a higher thermal conductivity than the pure paraffin wax. The ability of the composite PCM to reduce temperature variation in lithium ion batteries was also evaluated over 10 charging – discharging cycles. It was found that the composite PCM was better able to reduce the temperature rise induced by charging and discharging than the pure paraffin PCM.
Reference: 2014 IEEE Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems (ITherm) (2014) 1390-1393
DOI: 10.1109/ITHERM.2014.6892442