Electrically conductive thermal interface materials based on vertically aligned carbon nanotubes mats

Novel nanostructured thermal interface materials: a review

“…While some research has been done in collaboration with industrial partners [160], there is currently, to the best of the authors' knowledge, no instance of CNT array TIM in a commercial application. There results are promising, and could lead to a new class of TIMs with thermal performance in the same range as solders, while absorbing strain through a mechanically decoupled interface like thermal grease and, in the case of double-sided foil CNT array TIM, the handling properties associated with thermal pads.…”

“…Recently, progress has been made towards non-metal bonding of CNT arrays using polymer coatings [157][158][159][160] or chemical functionalisation [133,161,162]. Polymer bonding can serve to increase real contact area, as demonstrated using a spray on polymer coating together with a solvent, which pull CNTs into contact using capillary forces [158].…”