Enhancement of thermal and electrical properties of carbon nanotube polymer composites by magnetic field processing

By E. Choi, J. Brooks, D. L. Eaton, M. Al-Haik, M. Yousuff Hussaini, Hamid Garmestani, Dongsheng Li, K. Dahmen. 2003

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Subfields: Materials Chemistry

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Citations in the corpus

• A review on nanofluids - part II: experiments and applications (2008, background): “Choi et al. (2003) found that thermal properties of SWNTs-epoxy composites showed similar improvement of the thermal conductivity.”
• Polypropylene/carbon nanotube nano/microcellular structures with high dielectric permittivity, low dielectric loss, and low percolation threshold (2014, background): “[46] Choi ES, Brooks JS, Eaton DL, Al-Haik MS, Hussaini MY, Garmestani H, et al.”
• POLYMER NANOCOMPOSITES BASED ON FUNCTIONALIZED CARBON NANOTUBES (2010, methodology): “The percolation threshold for the electrical conductivity in polymer-CNT nanocomposites depends on dispersion [291,292,183], alignment [293,294], aspect ratio [292,295,296], degree of surface modification [95] of CNTs, polymer types [301] and composite processing methods [292].”
• Thermal conductivity of MWCNT/epoxy composites: The effects of length, alignment and functionalization (2012, background): “Alignment of CNTs in the composite also increases the thermal conductivity [5,8,14,15] along the alignment direction due to reduced number of interface and contact resistance.”
• Heat transfer characteristics of nanofluids: a review (2007, background): “Choi et al. [ 36 ] SWNTs ∅20–30 × 200 epoxy 300% at 3 wt% SWNT loading Wen and Ding [37] CNTs ∅20–60 ×∼ 10 µm water 23.7% ans 31% increase at 0.84% CNT concentration for 20 ◦ Ca nd 45 ◦C, respectively”
• Magnetically processed carbon nanotube/epoxy nanocomposites: Morphology, thermal, and mechanical properties (2010, methodology): “These results agree with the enhancement of magnetically aligned samples properties reported by other researchers [31,32,35,42].”
• A Micromechanics Model for the Electrical Conductivity of Nanotube-Polymer Nanocomposites (2009, background): “Estimates available in the literature place the electron hopping distance between 5 and 30 nm [10,25,49] which are then taken in this study as the minimum and maximum thicknesses of the interphase layer representing the electron hopping.”