Journal
MATERIALS & DESIGN
Volume 156, Issue -, Pages 242-251Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.matdes.2018.06.052
Keywords
POSS; Surface modification; Carbon nanotubes; High thermal conductivity; PVDF
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- Science and Technology Project of Tianjin [12ZCZDSF02200]
- Innovation Service Platform Project of Desalination and Comprehensive Utilization [CXSF2014-34-C]
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To achieve high thermal conductivity of polymer-based composites at low filler loading is still a challenge because of the insufficient contact area and incomplete thermal percolation pathway. In this work, PVDF composite membrane with high thermal conductivity is fabricated using polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane (POSS) functionalized carbon nanotubes (CNTs) as fillers. Surface modification promotes the uniform dispersion of asTT-POSS in PVDF matrix and enlarges the contact area. Through the thermal analysis of the CNT-COOH/PVDF and CNTPOSS/PVDF composites, the results indicate that the nucleation effect of CNTs increases the crystallinity of the pure PVDF from 42.9% to 51.2%. In addition, the addition of POSS nanoparticles to the CNT-PVDF composites significantly improves its thermal stability, mechanical and thermal conductivity properties. The CNT-POSS/PVDF composite membrane with 15 wt% CNT-POSS presents an extremely high thermal conductivity of 1.12 W/m.K (vs. 0.15 W/m.K for pure PVDF) and exhibits great superiority in comparison with the thermally conductive PVDF-based composites reported before. (C) 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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