Construction of a thermally conductive network to improve the thermal and mechanical performance of silicone rubber foam
eXPRESS Polymer Letters(2023)
Abstract
Silicone foam (SF) is a porous silicone rubber with a lower density, higher elasticity, and good thermal stability. In this work, we selected aluminum spheres and carbon fiber (CF) as thermally conductive fillers to prepare hybrid SF. After optimization, we found that Al and CF hybrid SF (Al-CF-SF) has a higher thermal conductivity (1.37 W center dot m-1 center dot K-1) than the single-filler filled SF (CF-SF, 1.2 W center dot m-1 center dot K-1 or Al-SF, 0.52 W center dot m-1 center dot K-1) under the same filling amount of 60 wt%. The finite element simulation was used further to explore the thermal conductive mechanism of the hybrid SF. Meanwhile, the compressive and tensile modulus of the material (CF-SF) was increased to 10.8 and 3.3 MPa compared with pure SF, respectively, and the mechanical properties were improved. In addition, infrared thermography further demonstrated that Al-CF-SF has a faster heat transfer rate under relaxation and applied pressure.
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Key words
silicone rubber foam,thermally,conductive network
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