Carbon nanotube composites for thermal management

By M. Biercuk, M. Llaguno, M. Radosavljevic, J. K. Hyun, A. T. Johnson, J. Fischer. 2002

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Single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) were used to augment the thermal transport properties of industrial epoxy. Samples loaded with 1 wt % unpurified SWNT material showed a 70% increase in thermal conductivity at 40 K, rising to 125% at room temperature; the enhancement due to 1 wt % loading of vapor grown carbon fibers was three times smaller. Electrical conductivity data showed a percolation threshold between 0.1 and 0.2 wt % SWNT loading. The Vickers hardness rose monotonically with SWNT loading up to a factor of 3.5 at 2 wt %. These results suggest that the thermal and mechanical properties of SWNT-epoxy composites are improved, without the need to chemically functionalize the nanotubes.

Subfields: Materials Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering

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Citations in the corpus

• Thermal conductivity of MWCNT/epoxy composites: The effects of length, alignment and functionalization (2012, background): “[12] Biercuk MJ, Llaguno MC, Radosavljevic M, Hyun JK, Johnson AT, Fischer JE.”
• Melt mixing of polycarbonate with multiwalled carbon nanotubes: microscopic studies on the state of dispersion (2004, methodology): “Applying of shear is described to be very efficient in order to minimize nanotube aggregate formation [2,6,7,13] and, thus, to enhance nanotube dispersion.”