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Electrically insulating POE/BN elastomeric composites with high through-plane thermal conductivity fabricated by two-roll milling and hot compression

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In this work, we reported a kind of electrical insulating, highly through-plane thermally conductive polyolefin elastomer (POE)-based composites filled with commercial boron nitride (BN) fabricated by a conventional melt-mixing method of two-roll milling, followed by hot compression and mechanical cutting. The as-fabricated composites with BN flakes perfectly aligning vertically in the matrix revealed high through-plane thermal conductivity (6.94 W m−1 K−1 at a BN content of 43.75 vol%), outstanding electrical insulation (4.34× Ω cm at a BN content of 43.75 vol%), and quite good mechanical properties. This fabrication procedure features facile process, industrial equipment, and easy industrialization, and the as-prepared composites with outstanding comprehensive performance are promising for thermal interface materials (TIMs) application.

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This work was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NNSFC Grant Nos. 51422305 and 51421061).

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    Chang-Ping Feng, Lu Bai, Rui-Ying Bao, Zheng-Ying Liu, Ming-Bo Yang, Jun Chen & Wei Yang

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Feng, CP., Bai, L., Bao, RY. et al. Electrically insulating POE/BN elastomeric composites with high through-plane thermal conductivity fabricated by two-roll milling and hot compression. Adv Compos Hybrid Mater 1, 160–167 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42114-017-0013-2

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