Thermal conductivity of polymers and polymer nanocomposites

C Huang, X Qian, R Yang - Materials Science and Engineering: R: Reports, 2018 - Elsevier
Polymers are widely used in industry and in our daily life because of their diverse
functionality, light weight, low cost and excellent chemical stability. However, on some …

Tutorial: Time-domain thermoreflectance (TDTR) for thermal property characterization of bulk and thin film materials

P Jiang, X Qian, R Yang - Journal of Applied Physics, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Measuring thermal properties of materials is not only of fundamental importance in
understanding the transport processes of energy carriers (electrons and phonons in solids) …

High thermal conductivity in amorphous polymer blends by engineered interchain interactions

GH Kim, D Lee, A Shanker, L Shao, MS Kwon… - Nature materials, 2015 - nature.com
Thermal conductivity is an important property for polymers, as it often affects product
reliability (for example, electronics packaging), functionality (for example, thermal interface …

Thermal conductivity, heat capacity, and elastic constants of water-soluble polymers and polymer blends

X **e, D Li, TH Tsai, J Liu, PV Braun, DG Cahill - Macromolecules, 2016 - ACS Publications
We use time-domain thermoreflectance (TDTR), and the generation and detection of
longitudinal and surface acoustic waves, to study the thermal conductivity, heat capacity …

Boron nitride based polymer nanocomposites for heat dissipation and thermal management applications

MRH Mazumder, LD Mathews, S Mateti, NV Salim… - Applied Materials …, 2022 - Elsevier
Meteoric breakthroughs in the integration and shrinkage of electronic devices in the last few
years made thermal management a critical issue affecting the lifetime, performance, and …

Thermal conductivity analysis and applications of nanocellulose materials

K Uetani, K Hatori - Science and Technology of advanced …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
In this review, we summarize the recent progress in thermal conductivity analysis of
nanocellulose materials called cellulose nanopapers, and compare them with polymeric …

High thermal conductivity in electrostatically engineered amorphous polymers

A Shanker, C Li, GH Kim, D Gidley, KP Pipe, J Kim - Science advances, 2017 - science.org
High thermal conductivity is critical for many applications of polymers (for example,
packaging of light-emitting diodes), in which heat must be dissipated efficiently to maintain …

Anisotropic thermal conductive properties of hot-pressed polystyrene/graphene composites in the through-plane and in-plane directions

P Ding, J Zhang, N Song, S Tang, Y Liu, L Shi - Composites Science and …, 2015 - Elsevier
The interactions between polystyrene (PS) and graphene as well as the factors leading to
anisotropic thermal conductive properties in the in-plane and through-plane directions of the …

Machine-learning-driven discovery of polymers molecular structures with high thermal conductivity

MX Zhu, HG Song, QC Yu, JM Chen… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
The ability to efficiently design new and advanced polymers with functional thermal
properties is hampered by the high-cost and time-consuming experiments. Machine learning …

Thermal transport in polymers: a review

X Wei, Z Wang, Z Tian, T Luo - Journal of Heat …, 2021 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
In this article, we review thermal transport in polymers with different morphologies from
aligned fibers to bulk amorphous states. We survey early and recent efforts in engineering …