Model Approach to Thermal Conductivity in Hybrid Graphene–Polymer Nanocomposites

Author(s)
Andriy B. Nadtochiy, Alla M. Gorb, Borys M. Gorelov, Oleksiy I. Polovina, Oleg Korotchenkov, Viktor Schlosser
Abstract

The thermal conductivity of epoxy nanocomposites filled with self-assembled hybrid nanoparticles composed of multilayered graphene nanoplatelets and anatase nanoparticles was described using an analytical model based on the effective medium approximation with a reasonable amount of input data. The proposed effective thickness approach allowed for the simplification of the thermal conductivity simulations in hybrid graphene@anatase TiO2 nanosheets by including the phenomenological thermal boundary resistance. The sensitivity of the modeled thermal conductivity to the geometrical and material parameters of filling particles and the host polymer matrix, filler’s mass concentration, self-assembling degree, and Kapitza thermal boundary resistances at emerging interfaces was numerically evaluated. A fair agreement of the calculated and measured room-temperature thermal conductivity was obtained.

Organisation(s)
Electronic Properties of Materials
External organisation(s)
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (KNU), National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NASU), Erwin Schrödinger Institut
Journal
Molecules
Volume
28
No. of pages
31
ISSN
1420-3049
DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules28217343
Publication date
11-2023
Peer reviewed
Yes
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
104014 Surface chemistry, 210004 Nanomaterials
Keywords
ASJC Scopus subject areas
Analytical Chemistry, Chemistry (miscellaneous), Molecular Medicine, Pharmaceutical Science, Drug Discovery, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Organic Chemistry
Portal url
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/2820033d-3025-46c1-8f37-8cc8a3e39fc6