A highly orientational architecture formed by covalently bonded graphene to achieve high through-plane thermal conductivity of polymer composites

Yan, Qingwei1,2,3; Gao, Jingyao4; Chen, Ding5; Tao, Peidi2; Chen, Lu2,3; Ying, Junfeng2,3; Tan, Xue2,3; Lv, Le2,3; Dai, Wen2,3; Alam, Fakhr E.6; Yu, Jinhong2,3; Wang, Yuezhong2,3; Li, He2,3; Xue, Chen2,3; Nishimura, Kazuhito7; Wu, Sudong8,9; Jiang, Nan2,3; Lin, Cheng-Te1,2,3

2022-07-01

10.1039/d2nr02265f

Nanoscale   Impact Factor & Quartile

2040-3364

2040-3372

Combining the advantages of high thermal conductivities and low graphene contents to fabricate polymer composites for applications in thermal management is still a great challenge due to the high defect degree of exfoliated graphene, the poor orientation of graphene in polymer matrices, and the horrible phonon scattering between graphene/graphene and graphene/polymer interfaces. Herein, mesoplasma chemical vapor deposition (CVD) technology was successfully employed to synthesize vertically aligned graphene nanowalls (GNWs), which are covalently bonded by high-quality CVD graphene nanosheets. The unique architecture leads to an excellent thermal enhancement capacity of the GNWs, and a corresponding composite film with a matrix of polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) presented a high through-plane thermal conductivity of 12.8 +/- 0.77 W m(-1) K-1 at a low filler content of 4.0 wt%, resulting in a thermal conductivity enhancement per 1 wt% graphene loading of 1659, which is far superior to that using conventional graphene structures as thermally conductive pathways. In addition, this composite exhibited an excellent capability in cooling a high-power light-emitting diode (LED) device under real application conditions. Our finding provides a new route to prepare high-performance thermal management materials with low filler loadings via the rational design of the microstructures/interfaces of graphene skeletons.

SCI ; EI

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National Natural Science Foundation of China["52075527","U1709205","52102055"] ; National Key R&D Program of China["2017YFB0406000","2017YFE0128600"] ; Project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences["XDC07030100","XDA22020602","ZDKYYQ20200001","ZDRW-CN-2019-3"] ; CAS Youth Innovation Promotion Association[2020301] ; Science and Technology Major Project of Ningbo["2018B10046","2016S1002"] ; Natural Science Foundation of Ningbo[2017A610010] ; Foundation of State Key Laboratory of Solid Lubrication[LSL-1912] ; China Postdoctoral Science Foundation[2020M681965] ; National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Advanced Composites in Special Environments[6142905192806] ; K.C. Wong Education Foundation[GJTD-2019-13] ; Fundamental Research Program of Shenzhen[JCYJ20190809115211227] ; Zhejiang Province Key Research and Development Program[2019C01060]

Chemistry ; Science & Technology - Other Topics ; Materials Science ; Physics

Chemistry, Multidisciplinary ; Nanoscience & Nanotechnology ; Materials Science, Multidisciplinary ; Physics, Applied

WOS:000830042000001

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY

20223212537643

Chemical vapor deposition ; Composite films ; Fillers ; Fluorine compounds ; Polymer matrix composites ; Temperature control

Specific Variables Control:731.3 ; Nanotechnology:761 ; Chemical Reactions:802.2 ; Chemical Products Generally:804 ; Polymeric Materials:815.1

Web of Science

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8.Southern Univ Sci & Technol, Acad Adv Interdisciplinary Studies, Shenzhen 518055, Peoples R China
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Yan, Qingwei,Gao, Jingyao,Chen, Ding,et al. A highly orientational architecture formed by covalently bonded graphene to achieve high through-plane thermal conductivity of polymer composites[J]. Nanoscale,2022,14:11171-11178.

Yan, Qingwei.,Gao, Jingyao.,Chen, Ding.,Tao, Peidi.,Chen, Lu.,...&Lin, Cheng-Te.(2022).A highly orientational architecture formed by covalently bonded graphene to achieve high through-plane thermal conductivity of polymer composites.Nanoscale,14,11171-11178.

Yan, Qingwei,et al."A highly orientational architecture formed by covalently bonded graphene to achieve high through-plane thermal conductivity of polymer composites".Nanoscale 14(2022):11171-11178.