Creation of interfacial phonons by carbon nanotube-polymer coupling.
Incorporation of carbon nanotubes into nylon-6 creates interfacial phonons; phonon occupation at low frequency regime is therefore enhanced, leading to thermal conductivity improvement by 74-78%.
Li
Ching-Chen
CC
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, HsinChu 30013, Taiwan. wkhsu@mx.nthu.edu.tw
Lu
Chieh-Lien
CL
Lin
Yu-Tang
YT
Wei
Bee-Yu
BY
Hsu
Wen-Kuang
WK