Donghua University

About: Donghua University is a education organization based out in Shanghai, China. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Fiber & Nanofiber. The organization has 21155 authors who have published 21841 publications receiving 393091 citations. The organization is also known as: Dōnghuá Dàxué & China Textile University.

Fluorinated Carbon Nanotube/Nanofibrillated Cellulose Composite Film with Enhanced Toughness, Superior Thermal Conductivity, and Electrical Insulation

Abstract: Recently, graphene and carbon nanotubes (CNTs) promise considerable application potentials in the highly efficient thermal management of high-power devices because of their superb thermal conductivity (TC). However, the high electrical conductivity hampers their use in some fields where electrical insulating components are always required. Herein, to coordinate the thermal and electrical conductivity of CNT, fluorinated CNT (FCNT) was first used as a thermally conductive filler to prepare composite film with nanofibrillated celluloses (NFCs) via facile vacuum-assisted filtration. The obtained composite film shows a well-organized layered structure of the building blocks along the planar direction. Moreover, the one-dimensional structure of NFCs and the strong interaction of NFCs and FCNTs ensure sufficient connection between FCNT themselves and the reduced interfacial thermal resistance of NFCs/FCNTs, so that efficient heat transfer pathways can be well reserved, leading to simultaneous accessibility of h...