• 文献标题:   High electrical conductivity in polydimethylsiloxane composite with tailored graphene foam architecture
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   HAN B, CHEN HY, HU T, YE HJ, XU LX
  • 作者关键词:   liquidphase exfoliation, hyperbranched polyethylene, graphene foam, polymer composite, thermal property, electrical conductivity
  • 出版物名称:   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR STRUCTURE
  • ISSN:   0022-2860 EI 1872-8014
  • 通讯作者地址:   Zhejiang Univ Technol
  • 被引频次:   1
  • DOI:   10.1016/j.molstruc.2019.127416
  • 出版年:   2020

▎ 摘  要

Graphene foam has huge potential applications in thermal management owing to their unique three-dimensional (3D) interconnected structure. It's still a challenge to construct graphene foam architecture via facile and efficient method to reach superior property with low loading of nanofillers. Here, we report a polymer-template-assisted assembly strategy to develop 3D graphene architecture that is incorporated into polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) composite with high electrical conductivity and thermal property. A free-standing foam structure has been assembled with graphene nanosheets, which was exfoliated in low-boiling-point chloroform with assistance of hyperbranched polyethylene as polymer stabilizer against aggregation via CH-pi noncovalent interactions. The resultant graphene foam/PDMS composite exhibits high thermal conductivity of 0.22 W m(-1) K-1 and high electrical conductivity of 9.1 x 10(-3) S cm(-1) at relatively low loading as 0.7 wt%, which is ascribed to the efficient transfer of charge carrier and thermal phonon along the graphene skeleton. This work demonstrates that the PDMS composite incorporated with graphene foam is a promising candidate for thermal interface materials with high electrical conductivity. (C) 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.