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Sci Rep. 2016 Oct 05;6:34726. doi: 10.1038/srep34726.

Hybrid boron nitride-natural fiber composites for enhanced thermal conductivity.

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Changlei Xia, Andres C Garcia, Sheldon Q Shi, Ying Qiu, Nathaniel Warner, Yingji Wu, Liping Cai, Hussain R Rizvi, Nandika A D'Souza, Xu Nie

Affiliations

  1. Department of Mechanical and Energy Engineering, University of North Texas, Denton, TX 76203, USA.
  2. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of North Texas, Denton, TX 76203, USA.
  3. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX 75205, USA.

PMID: 27703226 PMCID: PMC5050430 DOI: 10.1038/srep34726

Abstract

Thermal conductivity was dramatically increased after adding natural fiber into hexagonal boron nitride (hBN)/epoxy composites. Although natural fiber does not show high-thermal conductivity itself, this study found that the synergy of natural fiber with hBN could significantly improve thermal conductivity, compared with that solely using hBN. A design of mixtures approach using constant fibers with increasing volume fractions of hBN was examined and compared. The thermal conductivity of the composite containing 43.6% hBN, 26.3% kenaf fiber and 30.1% epoxy reached 6.418 W m

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