2016 (1) 1

https://doi.org/10.15407/polymerj.38.01.003

Thermal and electrical conductivity of the polymer-metal composites with 1D structure of filler formed in a magnetic field

Ye.P Mamunya V.V. Levchenko, I.M. Parashchenko, E.V. Lebedev

Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry of NAS of Ukraine

48, Kharkivske shose, Kyiv, 02160, Ukraine

Polym. J., 2016, 38, no. 1: 3-17.

Section: Structure and properties.

Language: Ukrainian.

Abstract:

The electrical and thermal properties of the metal-filled composites with a statistical three-dimensional 3D and an oriented one-dimensional 1D structure of the filler, which is formed in a magnetic field, have been studied. Composites based on thermosetting resin (silicone) and the thermoplastic polymer LDPE comprising metal fillers Fe and Ni with a particle size of 3 and 10 microns, respectively, were prepared. A significant increase in electrical conductivity and reduced percolation threshold from 25 to 4 % vol., as well as 1.5 times increase in thermal conductivity in the composites silicone-Fe and LDPE-Ni with 1D structure of the filler were revealed. Also, there were analyzed in details and quantitatively estimated the factors which restrict the achievement of ultrahigh (approaching the characteristics of metal) thermal and electrical conductivity values in the case of forming a conductive 1D structure. High thermal resistance at the interface between the metal particle–polymer matrix and particle–particle limits the thermal transport along the percolation cluster of the metal filler. The calculations of the interfacial thermal contact resistance were fulfilled. Analysis of the mechanism of heat transfer or flow of electric current through the direct contacts particle–particle and the corresponding calculations show that the contact spot does not make a significant contribution to heat transfer, resulting in the formation of a cluster of conductive filler particles and does not affect the thermal conductivity. In the case of electrical conductivity the contact spots play a crucial role in formation of the conductive cluster and an electric current flow through the metal filler.

Key words: polymer composite, one-dimensional structure, magnetic field, thermal conductivity, electrical conductivity, percolation threshold, contact thermal resistance.

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