Issue 70, 2016, Issue in Progress

Highly thermally conductive UHMWPE/graphite composites with segregated structures

Abstract

Polymer composites with segregated structures based on ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) and graphite flakes were fabricated by a novel binder-mixing method and the traditional solvent-mixing method. Compared with the solvent-mixing method, the thermal conductivity of composites fabricated by the binder-mixing method improved on average by 26.27 percent at the volume fraction of graphite flakes from 2.22–18.83 vol%. Optical and SEM images showed that the binder-mixing method results in the formation of a more continuous and more homogeneous conductive network and wider thermally conductive paths, leading to the greatly improved thermal conductivity.

Graphical abstract: Highly thermally conductive UHMWPE/graphite composites with segregated structures

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Communication
Submitted
29 May 2016
Accepted
01 Jul 2016
First published
04 Jul 2016

RSC Adv., 2016,6, 65709-65713

Highly thermally conductive UHMWPE/graphite composites with segregated structures

C. P. Feng, L. Chen, F. Wei, H. Y. Ni, J. Chen and W. Yang, RSC Adv., 2016, 6, 65709 DOI: 10.1039/C6RA13921C

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