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SUBMITTER: Tarannum F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7407094 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Tarannum Fatema F Muthaiah Rajmohan R Annam Roshan Sameer RS Gu Tingting T Garg Jivtesh J
Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) 20200630 7
Thermal conductivity (<i>k</i>) of polymers is usually limited to low values of ~0.5 W in comparison to metals (>20 W). The goal of this work is to enhance thermal conductivity (<i>k</i>) of polyethylene-graphene nanocomposites through simultaneous alignment of polyethylene (PE) lamellae and graphene nanoplatelets (GnP). Alignment is achieved through the application of strain. Measured values are compared with predictions from effective medium theory. A twin conical screw micro compounder is use ...[more]