Category: Transient Plane Source
Author(s): Chih-Wei Peng, Jui-Ming Yeh, Kung-Chin Chang, Mei-Chun Lai, Pei-Shan Wu, Wei-I Hung, Yen-Hao Lin
Keywords: 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate (HEMA), Cell structure, density, Foams, Gold, matrix, Mechanical Strength, Methyl methacrylate (MMA), Monomers, nanocomposites, Nanoparticles, Nitrogen, Photopolymerization, Polyacrylate-gold nanocomposites (PGNs), Polymer composites, Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), Temperature, Thermal Conductivity, Thermal Diffusivity, thermal stability, Transient plane source (TPS), Transient plane source (TPS) method, Transmission electron microscopy (TEM), UV
Abstract: The purpose of this study was to fabricate and analyze the physical properties of polyacrylate–gold nanocomposites (PGNs) with gold nanoparticles (GNPs) as their nucleation agents. The transient plane source (TPS) method was used to measure the thermal properties of the polyacrylate–gold nanocomposite foams (FPGNs) and PGNs. Results showed that the addition of GNPs improved thermal conductivity of the PGN materials, but as the size of GNPs increased, the enhancement percentage of thermal conductivity decreased.
Reference: Journal of Materials Chemistry, 22 (2012) 21654-21661
DOI: 10.1039/C2JM33912A