Hong Guo

TL;DR: In this paper, an effective way to apply a vapor deposited chromium coating onto diamond particles was used to overcome the interface problem, and the results showed that the densification, interfacial bonding and thermal conductivity of coated composites were evidently enhanced compared to that of uncoated composites.

TL;DR: In this article, a particle-compositing method was used for the first time to disperse different contents of multi-walled carbon nanotubes (CNTs) in micron sized copper powders, which were subsequently consolidated into CNT/Cu composites by spark plasma sintering (SPS).

TL;DR: Experimental results and theoretical analyses revealed that the interfacial thermal resistance between the CNTs and the Cu matrix plays a crucial role in determining the thermal conductivity of bulk composites, and only small interfacialthermal resistance can induce a significant degradation in thermal Conductivity for CNT/Cu composites.

TL;DR: In this article, the influence of minor addition of Zr on the microstructure and thermal conductivity of the composites was analyzed both experimentally and theoretically, and it was demonstrated that moderate interfacial modification due to the Zr added is beneficial to improve the thermal conductivities of the Cu/Dia composites.

TL;DR: In this article, a simple model was introduced for describing the effect of porosity on the effective thermal conductivity of spark plasma sintered (SPS) consolidated SiC p /Al composites in terms of an effective medium approximation (EMA) scheme.