Novel nanostructured thermal interface materials: a review

J Hansson, TMJ Nilsson, L Ye, J Liu - International Materials …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
The trend of continuing miniaturisation of microelectronics leads to new thermal
management challenges. A key point in the heat removal process development is to improve …

Modulating heat transport inside CNT assemblies: multi-level optimization and structural synergy

Y Ouyang, L Qiu, X Zhang, Y Feng - Carbon, 2023 - Elsevier
Due to their ultra-high thermal conductivity, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have become a hot
spot for thermal enhancement materials. However, many researchers have found that the …

Functionalization mediates heat transport in graphene nanoflakes

H Han, Y Zhang, N Wang, MK Samani, Y Ni… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
The high thermal conductivity of graphene and few-layer graphene undergoes severe
degradations through contact with the substrate. Here we show experimentally that the …

Nanoscale Heat Transport of Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotube Bundles for Thermal Management Applications

J Spièce, K Lulla… - … Applied Materials & …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Electronic devices continue to shrink in size while increasing in performance, making excess
heat dissipation challenging. Traditional thermal interface materials (TIMs) such as thermal …

Review of current progress of thermal interface materials for electronics thermal management applications

J Hansson, C Zandén, L Ye, J Liu - 2016 IEEE 16th …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Increasing power densities within microelectronic systems place an ever increasing demand
on the thermal management. Thermal interface materials (TIMs) are used to fill air gaps at …

Degradation of carbon nanotube array thermal interface materials through thermal aging: Effects of bonding, array height, and catalyst oxidation

A Nylander, J Hansson, T Nilsson, L Ye… - ACS Applied Materials …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Carbon nanotube (CNT) array thermal interface materials (TIMs) are promising candidates
for high-performance applications in terms of thermal performance. However, in order to be …

A pyrenylpropyl phosphonic acid surface modifier for mitigating the thermal resistance of carbon nanotube contacts

JH Taphouse, ONL Smith, SR Marder… - Advanced Functional …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Efforts to utilize the high intrinsic thermal conductivity of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) for
thermal transport applications, namely for thermal interface materials (TIMs), have been …

Classical to quantum transition of heat transfer between two silica clusters

S Xiong, K Yang, YA Kosevich, Y Chalopin… - Physical Review Letters, 2014 - APS
Heat transfer between two silica clusters is investigated by using the nonequilibrium Green's
function method. In the gap range between 4 Å and 3 times the cluster size, the thermal …

Preparation of antistatic polystyrene superfine powder with polystyrene modified carbon nanotubes as antistatic agent

M Zhang, C Zhang, Z Du, H Li, W Zou - Composites Science and …, 2017 - Elsevier
A facile approach for fabricating antistatic polystyrene (PS) microspheres used in 3D print
had been carried out by introducing polystyrene onto the MWCNTs (MWCNTs@ PS) …

Nanoscale azide polymer functionalization: a robust solution for suppressing the carbon nanotube–polymer matrix thermal interface resistance

Y Ni, H Han, S Volz, T Dumitrica - The Journal of Physical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
The large thermal resistance across the carbon nanotube (CNT)–polymer matrix interface is
a limiting factor for achieving polymer composites with high thermal conductivities. Using …