Application of Hybrid Fillers for Improving the Through-Plane Heat Transport in Graphite Nanoplatelet-Based Thermal Interface Layers

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Tian, Xiaojuan ^a,b   Itkis, Mikhail E ^a   Haddon, Robert C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California Riverside   (United States)

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EID: 84939458060     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep13108     Document Type: Article

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