Category: Transient Plane Source
Author(s): Andrzej Czulak, Anna Szymczyk, Bartlomiej Przybyszewski, Ryszard Pilawka, Sandra Paszkiewicz, Zbigniew Roslaniec
Keywords: Carbon nanotubes, CNTs, Fillers, graphene, nanocomposites, Polymer composites, Scanning Electron Microscopy, Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), SEM, Thermal Conductivity, TPS Method, Transient Plane Source, Transient plane source (TPS) method
Abstract: Poly(trimethylene terephthalate)-block-poly(tetramethylene oxide) (PTT-PMTO) copolymer-based nanocomposites containing a combination of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) and graphene nanoplatelets (GNPs) as carbon nanofillers were investigated to determine their thermal conductivities. Nanocomposites having a total carbon nanofiller concentration of 0.4 and 0.6 wt. % were preparared with varying amounts of each nanofiller, and the thermal conductivity was measured using the transient plane source (TPS) method. The dispersion of the nanofillers was observed by SEM, and it was found that the GNPs were better dispersed when SWCNTs were present. The thermal conductivity enhancement reached a maximum when the SWCNT:GNP ratio was 5:1.
Reference: Advances in Polymer Technology (Online, 2015) 7 pages
DOI: 10.1002/adv.21611