Thermal percolation network in Al<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub> based thermal conductive polymer

Xu Hao-Zhe; Xu Xiang-Fan

doi:10.7498/aps.72.20221400

Abstract

Polymers incorporated with high thermal conductivity fillers have numerous applications in thermal interface materials. Plenty of efforts have been made to improve the thermal conductivity of polymer composite. A possible method is to choose fillers with different morphologies, which can combine the advantages of various fillers. However, owing to the limitations of the effective medium theory as well as lack of researches of thermal percolation, there is still little understanding of the synergistic mechanism of fillers with different morphologies. In order to avoid the coupling effect of different materials, this work uses the same kind of Al₂O₃ but with different morphologies to prepare different kinds of epoxy composites incorporated with spherical Al₂O₃, plate-like Al₂O₃ and fillers mixed of 1∶1 ratio. The thermal conductivity of each sample is measured by the steady state method. With the fitting of the thermal percolation theory, the synergistic effect of plate-like fillers and that of spherical fillers are verified to promote the formation of thermal percolation network. In addition, by observing the microscopic distribution of fillers, we try to explain the mechanism of this synergistic effect.

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Center for Phononics and Thermal Energy Science, School of Physics Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China

Corresponding author: Xu Xiang-Fan, xuxiangfan@tongji.edu.cn

Funds: Project supported by the Key-Area Research and Development Program of Guangdong Province, China (Grant No. 2020B010190004) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 12174286, 11890703, 11935010).

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图 1 氧化铝/环氧树脂复合材料的制备流程示意图

Figure 1. Schematic illustration of the preparation of Al₂O₃/epoxy composites.

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图 2 测试原理

Figure 2. Testing principle.

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图 3 样品的总热阻-厚度关系图

Figure 3. Thermal resistance versus sample thickness.

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图 4 不同形貌的氧化铝/环氧树脂复合材料的热导率以及理论拟合图线

Figure 4. The thermal conductivity of different kinds of Al₂O₃/epoxy composites and theoretical fitting line.

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图 5 协同作用机制的示意图

Figure 5. Schematic diagram of the synergistic mechanism.

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图 6 氧化铝/环氧树脂复合材料的SEM照片　(a) 球形氧化铝分散性; (b) 球形氧化铝的接触; (c) 片状氧化铝的导热通路; (d) 片状氧化铝的接触; (e) 1∶1混合添加的导热通路; (f) 1∶1混合添加的整体分散性

Figure 6. SEM images of Al₂O₃/epoxy composites: (a) The dispersion of spherical Al₂O₃; (b) the mutual contact of spherical Al₂O₃; (c) the thermal conductive pathway of plate-like Al₂O₃; (d) the mutual contact of plate-like Al₂O₃; (e) the thermal conductive pathway of fillers mixed of 1∶1 ratio; (f) the dispersion of Al₂O₃ of fillers mixed of 1∶1 ratio.

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