Thermal conductivity of V2O5 nanowires and their contact thermal conductance
Abstract
Vanadium pentoxide (V2O5) based composites show outstanding performance as the cathode materials in Lithium ion batteries. Yet the inferior thermal conductivity restricted the heat dissipation through the cathode electrode. In this paper, we measured the thermal conductivity of V2O5 nanowires by using the thermal bridge method and found that the thermal conductivity is 3.84±0.38 W m-1 K-1 at T =300 K. The contact thermal resistance between two nanowires with the same size was measured to reach up to 50%-80% of the total thermal resistance in the measured samples, indicating that the contact is the bottleneck for thermal dissipation.