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Ultrahigh Thermal Conductivity of Epoxy Composites with Hybrid Carbon Fiber and Graphene Filler

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With the advancement of technology, the tendency towards multifunctional and smaller size electronic devices is increasing rapidly, thus heat removal is crucially needed. Carbon fiber and graphene are the most promising materials being used as thermal conductive filler for this purpose. Herein, random carbon fiber/graphene epoxy composites (R-CF/G Ep) and vertically aligned carbon fiber/graphene epoxy composites (V-CF/G Ep) were constructed. The difference of thermal conductivity between two methods at various filler loading was investigated. With 30 wt% filler loading, the thermal conductivity of R-CF/G Ep was only 7.4 W m−1 K−1. While the V-CF/G Ep presented ultrahigh thermal conductivity of 21.19 W m−1 K−1 due to synergistic effect of carbon fiber and graphene. In this work, a promising method taking full advantage of axes thermal conductivity of CF is revealed.

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Acknowledgement

The authors are grateful for the financial support by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (51573201, 52075527 and U1709205), CAS Youth Innovation Promotion Association (2020301), National Key R&D Program of China (2017YFB0406000 and 2017YFE0128600), the Project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (XDC07030100, XDA22020602, ZDKYYQ20200001 and ZDRW-CN-2019-3), Science and Technology Major Project of Ningbo (2018B10046 and 2016S1002), the Natural Science Foundation of Ningbo (2019A610028 and 2017A610010), Foundation of State Key Laboratory of Solid lubrication (LSL-1912), National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Advanced Composites in Special Environments (6142905192806), and K.C. Wong Education Foundation (gJTD-2019-13).

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  1. Key Laboratory of Marine Materials and Related Technologies, Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Marine Materials and Protective Technologies, Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ningbo, 315201, China

    Zulfiqar Ali, Xiangdong Kong, Maohua Li, Xiao Hou, Linhong Li, Yue Qin, Guichen Song, Xianzhe Wei, Tao Cai, Wen Dai, Cheng-Te Lin, Nan Jiang & Jinhong Yu

  2. Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China

    Zulfiqar Ali, Maohua Li, Xiao Hou, Linhong Li, Tao Cai, Wen Dai, Cheng-Te Lin, Nan Jiang & Jinhong Yu

  3. Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Aero Engine Extreme Manufacturing Technology, Ningbo, 315201, China

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Ali, Z., Kong, X., Li, M. et al. Ultrahigh Thermal Conductivity of Epoxy Composites with Hybrid Carbon Fiber and Graphene Filler. Fibers Polym 23, 463–470 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12221-021-3164-2

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