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Thermal Conduction in Aligned Carbon Nanotube–Polymer Nanocomposites with High Packing Density

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The impact of CNT density on thermal conduction considering boundary resistances, increased defect concentrations, and the possibility of suppressed phonon modes in the CNTs is discussed.
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Nanostructured composites containing aligned carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are very promising as interface materials for electronic systems and thermoelectric power generators. We report the first data for the thermal conductivity of densified, aligned multiwall CNT nanocomposite films for a range of CNT volume fractions. A 1 vol % CNT composite more than doubles the thermal conductivity of the base polymer. Denser arrays (17 vol % CNTs) enhance the thermal conductivity by as much as a factor of 18 and there is a nonlinear trend with CNT volume fraction. This article discusses the impact of CNT density on thermal conduction considering boundary resistances, increased defect concentrations, and the possibility of suppressed phonon modes in the CNTs.

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Thermal transport measurements of individual multiwalled nanotubes.

TL;DR: The thermal conductivity and thermoelectric power of a single carbon nanotube were measured using a microfabricated suspended device and shows linear temperature dependence with a value of 80 microV/K at room temperature.
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Unusually High Thermal Conductivity of Carbon Nanotubes

TL;DR: An unusually high value, lambda approximately 6600 W/m K, is suggested for an isolated (10,10) nanotube at room temperature, comparable to the thermal conductivity of a hypothetical isolated graphene monolayer or diamond.
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Effective thermal conductivity of particulate composites with interfacial thermal resistance

TL;DR: In this article, a methodology is introduced for predicting the effective thermal conductivity of arbitrary particulate composites with interfacial thermal resistance in terms of an effective medium approach combined with the essential concept of Kapitza thermal contact resistance.
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Interfacial heat flow in carbon nanotube suspensions

TL;DR: These findings indicate that heat transport in a nanotube composite material will be limited by the exceptionally small interface thermal conductance and that the thermal conductivity of the composite will be much lower than the value estimated from the intrinsic thermal conductivities of the nanotubes and their volume fraction.
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Evaluation and identification of electrical and thermal conduction mechanisms in carbon nanotube/epoxy composites

TL;DR: In this paper, the electrical and thermal conductivity of nanoparticulate filled epoxy resins is evaluated with respect to the influence of the type of carbon nanotubes (SWCNT, DWCNT and MWCNT).
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