Carbon Nanofiller-enhanced Ceramic Composites: Thermal and Electrical Studies

Thermal Conductivity of Polyimide/carbon Nanofiller Blends

INTRODUCTION Combining polymers with an organic or inorganic filler to produce a polymer composite is common in the production and processing of modern plastics. Recently, filler sizes have been reduced to nanometer dimensions resulting in a new class of materials termed polymer nanocomposites (PNC). PNCs are commonly defined as the combination of a polymer matrix resin with inclusions that hav...

Bio-inspired Ceramic/carbon Composites

Effect of Chopped Carbon Fiber on Electrical and Thermal properties of Carbon Reinforced Epoxy Composites

This work presents an insight into the effect of conductive filler content on both electrical and thermal properties of a polymer composite system. The electrical conductivity of an insulating polymer can be achieved by dispersing conducting fillers (e.g., metal, graphite powder, carbon black, carbon fiber) in the polymer matrix. The resulting materials are referred to as conducting polymer com...

Electrical and electromagnetic properties of isolated carbon nanotubes and carbon nanotube-based composites

Isolated carbon nanotubes (CNTs), CNT films and CNT-polymer nanocomposites are a new generation of materials with outstanding mechanical, thermal, electrical and electromagnetic properties. The main objective of this article is to provide a comprehensive review on the investigations performed in the field of characterizing electrical and electromagnetic properties of isolated CNTs and CNT-reinf...

Studies of Electrical and Thermal Conductivities of Sheared Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotube with Isotactic Polypropylene Polymer Composites

Polymer nanocomposite materials of higher thermal and electrical transport properties are important to nanotech‐ nology applications such as thermal management, packag‐ ing, labelling and the textile industry. In this work, thermal and electrical conductivities in nanocomposites of multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNT) and isotactic polypro‐ pylene (iPP) are investigated in terms of MWCNT loadin...