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Improved Thermal Properties of Three-Dimensional Graphene Network Filled Polymer Composites

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This paper presents the improved thermal property of three-dimensional (3D) graphene network modified polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) composites. It shows that with a 2 wt.% loading of graphene foams (GF), the thermal conductivity of GF/PDMS composite was successfully increased from 0.19 W/mK to 0.42 W/mK, which is 2.2 times higher than that of neat PDMS. However, if GF was transformed into graphene sheets (GS) by sonication, the thermal conductivity of GS/PDMS was decreased to 0.28 W/mK. The remarkable improvement of the thermal properties is attributed to the 3D interconnected graphene network in GF, which form continuous heat transfer networks. Furthermore, the finite element analysis was conducted to evaluate the effect of GFs in composites, where some parameters such as thickness and thermal conductivity were analyzed and discussed. Our results indicate that the continuous 3D GFs holds great potential as fillers to improve the thermal property of polymer materials.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (11672171, 11802121, 51872182) and Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (BK20180416).

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    Yong Zhang, Fei Yang, Chen Yu, Ziyu Niu, Pei Lu, Yan Zhang & Johan Liu

  2. State Key Laboratory of Mechanics and Control of Mechanical Structures, Key Laboratory for Intelligent Nano Materials and Devices of Ministry of Education, and Institute of Nanoscience, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, 210016, China

    Zhili Hu

  3. Electronics Materials and Systems Laboratory, Department of Microtechnology and Nanoscience, Chalmers University of Technology, 412 96, Gothenburg, Sweden

    Johan Liu

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Zhang, Y., Yang, F., Yu, C. et al. Improved Thermal Properties of Three-Dimensional Graphene Network Filled Polymer Composites. J. Electron. Mater. 51, 420–425 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11664-021-09311-x

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