title: Extremely High Thermal Conductivity of Aligned Carbon Nanotube-Polyethylene Composites.
abstract: The ultra-low thermal conductivity of bulk polymers may be enhanced by combining them with high thermal conductivity materials such as carbon nanotubes. Different from random doping, we find that the aligned carbon nanotube-polyethylene composites has a high thermal conductivity by non-equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations. The analyses indicate that the aligned composite not only take advantage of the high thermal conduction of carbon nanotubes, but enhance thermal conduction of polyethylene chains.
authors.affiliation: School of Energy and Power Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan 430074, China.
authors.forename: Quanwen
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Liao
authors.affiliation: School of Energy and Power Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan 430074, China.
authors.forename: Zhichun
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: School of Energy and Power Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan 430074, China.
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: School of Energy and Power Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan 430074, China.
authors.forename: Chengcheng
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Deng
authors.affiliation: Nano Interface Center for Energy (NICE), School of Energy and Power Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan 430074, China.|State Key Laboratory of Coal Combustion, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan 430074, China.
authors.forename: Nuo
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Yang