Synergistic improvement of thermal conductivities of polyphenylene sulfide composites filled with boron nitride hybrid fillers

Junwei Gu, Yongqiang Guo, Xutong Yang, Chaobo Liang, Wangchang Geng, Lin Tang, Nan Li, Qiuyu Zhang

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Abstract

Hybrid fillers of micrometer boron nitride/nanometer boron nitride (mBN/nBN) were employed to fabricate the highly thermally conductive insulating mBN/nBN/polyphenylene sulfide ((mBN/nBN)/PPS) composites via mechanical ball-milling followed by hot-compression method. The thermally conductive coefficient (λ), dielectric constant (ε) & dielectric loss tangent (tan δ) values and thermal stabilities were all enhanced with the increasing addition of mBN/nBN hybrid fillers. The λ value was improved from 0.286 W/mK for pristine PPS matrix to 2.638 W/mK for the (mBN/nBN)/PPS composite with 60 wt% mBN/nBN (mass fraction, 2:1) hybrid fillers. Appropriate addition of the mBN/nBN hybrid fillers played a role of heterogeneous nucleation for PPS matrix. Agari model fitting revealed that the mBN/nBN hybrid fillers could be much easier to form the continuous thermally conductive channels & networks. The corresponding ε and tan δ values still maintained relatively lower level of 3.96 and 0.022, respectively. And the corresponding THeat-resistance index (THRI) value was beyond 277.8 °C.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)267-273
Number of pages7
JournalComposites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing
Volume95
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Apr 2017

Keywords

  • A. Polymer-matrix composites (PMCs)
  • B. Thermal properties
  • D. Compression moulding

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