Thermal percolation in stable graphite suspensions

Nano Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 188-192

  Zheng, Ruiting ^a,b   Gao, Jinwei ^a,c   Wang, Jianjian ^a   Feng, Shien Ping ^a,d   Ohtani, Hiroko ^e   Wang, Jinbo ^a,f   Chen, Gang ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b Beijing Normal University   (China)

^c SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^e FORD MOTOR COMPANY   (United States)

^f HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

graphite; percolation; suspension; Thermal

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATING CURRENT IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; CONDUCTIVE COMPOSITES; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRICAL PERCOLATION; ELECTRICAL PERCOLATION THRESHOLD; ENERGY SYSTEMS; GRAPHITE FLAKES; GRAPHITE SUSPENSIONS; INTERACTION FORCES; ISOLATED CLUSTER; MICRO-STRUCTURAL; NANOFLUIDS; PERCOLATED STRUCTURES; PERCOLATION THRESHOLDS; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; RATE OF INCREASE; THERMAL; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY ENHANCEMENT; THERMAL PERCOLATION;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GRAPHITE; PERCOLATION (COMPUTER STORAGE); PERCOLATION (FLUIDS); PERCOLATION (SOLID STATE); SOLVENTS; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY OF LIQUIDS;

GRAPHITE; NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; MATERIALS TESTING; PARTICLE SIZE; SUSPENSION; TEMPERATURE; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

GRAPHITE; MATERIALS TESTING; NANOSTRUCTURES; PARTICLE SIZE; SUSPENSIONS; TEMPERATURE; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 84855814595     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl203276y     Document Type: Article

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