Epoxy resin/silicon carbide (Ep/SiC) composites were prepared by the casting method and subsequently characterized for their mechanical and thermal properties. It was determined that an increasing mass fraction of SiC in the epoxy resin resulted in increasing thermal conductivity of the composites. Using 50 wt.% SiC resulted in a thermal conductivity of 0.7152 W/mK, which is three times that of pure epoxy resin. Mechanical properties peaked with 10 wt.% SiC. ...
The point of this research paper was to modify the thermal and mechanical properties of epoxy resin (EP) via the addition of boron nitride (BN) by a silane coupling agent (KH550). The use of 60 wt.% BN resulted in a thermal conductivity that was 5 times higher than the conductivity of the unmodified epoxy resin....
