Polymer composites for thermal management: a review

Vadivelu, M. A.; Kumar, C. Ramesh; Joshi, Girish M.

doi:10.1080/09276440.2016.1176853

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“…BN could be considered as filler where the inherent black color of graphite‐based composite would be less desirable. A more in‐depth discussion on thermal conductive fillers can be found in other papers .…”

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“…Lightweight, cheap, thermal conductive, and electrical insulating polymer composites seem to be a promising material group for to resolve this challenge. In addition, manufacturers of, for example, heat exchangers for cars, heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC), and desalination are interested in a better chemical resistance and fouling resistance and have highlighted a higher degree of freedom for the design of polymeric composite materials compared to traditionally used metals. The wide variety of available polymers offers the opportunity to select the (co)polymer (blend) with chemical and physical properties suiting the intended application.…”

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“…Currently, main focus has been on the effect of the nature of the polymer matrix and the filler type, the filler shape, and filler quantity on the composite TC . Hence, the relevance of the material properties as such has been the key research angle.…”

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The relevance of material and processing parameters on the thermal conductivity of thermoplastic composites

Wieme

Tang

Delva

et al. 2017

Polymer Engineering & Sci

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Thermoplastics composites show vast promise as an alternative for thermal management applications in the scope of the development of next-generation electronics and heat exchangers. Their low cost, reduced weight, and corrosion resistance make them an attractive replacer for traditionally used metals, in case their thermal conductivity (TC) can be sufficiently increased by designing the material (e.g., filler type and shape) and processing (e.g., dispersion quality, mixing, and shaping) parameters. In the present contribution, the relevance of both types of parameters is discussed, and guidelines are formulated for future research to increase the TC of thermoplastic polymer composites. POLYM. ENG. SCI., 58:466-474, 2018.

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The relevance of material and processing parameters on the thermal conductivity of thermoplastic composites

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Delva

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Polymer Engineering & Sci

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“…The thermal properties of the polymer composite materials are very poor whencompared with all other metals, metalloids [3]. Polymer composite materials exhibit low thermal properties due to poor phonon energy transfer in the sub-atomic level and the heat transfer capacity depends on the qualitative and quantitative nature of the reinforcing materials [4,6]. For developing a high thermal conductivity polymeric composite material, the investigation on heat transfer behavior of such material is a necessary one to execute inverse heat transfer problem to design such a composite.…”

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Parametric analysis and optimization of convective fin with variable thermal conductivity using semi-analytical solution

Arumugam¹,

Kumar²

2018

IJHT

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Due to the temperature dependent properties, evaluation of heat transfer performance parameters of a polymer composite material through experimentation is difficult as it needs sophisticated measurement techniques. In this article, to meet the current requirements, a simple semi-analytical method is proposed to investigate the performance of convective straight fins with temperature dependent thermal conductivity. The Adomian Decomposition Method (ADM) was adopted to solve the non-linear energy equation and Newton-Raphson method was used for optimization of the fin problem. After the analysis, the effect of convective-geometric fin parameter and thermal conductivity parameter is introduced in this problem to interpret the physical significance of such parameters. A parametric analysis was carried out to depict the dependency of heat transfer phenomena on various parameters. The informative plot on the gradient field of the fin efficiency negotiates the direction of maximum performance.

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“…The thermal conduction behavior of epoxy resin with various fillers was studied and concluded that the epoxy resin produced high-thermal conductive materials with the incorporation of natural graphite powder. 16 The effects of the MWCNTs, aluminum nitride particles, and their compounds on the microstructure and thermal conductivity of the composites were investigated by Jiao et al 17 The one-dimensional MWCNTs with superb thermal conductivity bridged the AlN particles to form an excellent network, which provides a faster and more effective pathway for phonon transport in the composites.…”

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Study of low weight percentage filler on dielectric properties of MCWNT-epoxy nanocomposites

Trihotri

Dwivedi²,

Malik

et al. 2016

J. Adv. Dielect.

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An attempt is made to study the effect of low weight percentage multiwall carbon nanotube (MWCNT) powder on dielectric properties of MWCNT reinforced epoxy composites. For that MWCNT (of different low weight percentage) reinforced epoxy composite was prepared by dispersing the MWCNT in resin. Samples were prepared by solution casting process and characterized for their dielectric properties such as dielectric constant (" 0 ), dielectric dissipation factor (tan ) and AC conductivity ( ac ). The main objective is the investigation of the dielectric properties of the prepared samples at the low weight percentage of the filler at different temperatures and frequencies. From the two mechanisms of electrical conduction, first the leakage current obtained by the formation of a percolation network in the matrix and the other by tunneling of electrons formed among conductors nearby (tunneling current); here we are getting conduction by the second mechanism. Generally, leakage current makes more contribution to conductivity than tunneling current. Dielectric dissipation factor at 250 Hz frequency is greater than all other frequencies and starts increasing from 60 C. The peak height of the transition temperature decreases with increasing frequency. This study shows that the addition of a low weight percentage of MWCNT can modify considerably the electrical behavior of epoxy nanocomposites without chemical functionalization of filler.

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Polymer composites for thermal management: a review

Cited by 119 publications

References 97 publications

The relevance of material and processing parameters on the thermal conductivity of thermoplastic composites

The relevance of material and processing parameters on the thermal conductivity of thermoplastic composites

Parametric analysis and optimization of convective fin with variable thermal conductivity using semi-analytical solution

Study of low weight percentage filler on dielectric properties of MCWNT-epoxy nanocomposites

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