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Functionalization of boron nitride nanoparticles and their utilization in epoxy composites with enhanced thermal conductivity
Author(s) -
He YongMing,
Wang QianQian,
Liu Wei,
Liu YiSheng
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
physica status solidi (a)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.532
H-Index - 104
eISSN - 1862-6319
pISSN - 1862-6300
DOI - 10.1002/pssa.201330305
Subject(s) - epoxy , materials science , boron nitride , surface modification , composite material , thermal conductivity , x ray photoelectron spectroscopy , thermogravimetric analysis , fourier transform infrared spectroscopy , conductivity , dispersion (optics) , chemical engineering , chemistry , physics , optics , engineering
This work proposes a facile method to greatly improve the thermal conductivity, while retaining the low electrical conductivity, of epoxy composites by incorporating boron nitride nanoparticles (BNNPs). BNNPs were surface modified by noncovalent functionalization with 1‐pyrenebutyric acid to obtain a stable aqueous BNNP dispersion. The functionalized BNNPs (f‐BNNPs) were characterized by X‐ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), Fourier transformation infrared (FTIR), and thermogravimetric analysis (TGA). The f‐BNNPs were found to yield the f‐BNNP/epoxy composites showing a homogeneous dispersion of BNNPs and a strong BNNP‐epoxy interfacial adhesion. The f‐BNNP/epoxy composites with 10 wt.% f‐BNNPs exhibited a high thermal conductivity of 1.58 W m −1 K −1 and a low electrical conductivity of 2.5 × 10 −16 S m −1 . The present f‐BNNP/epoxy composites can be potentially utilized in electronic packaging that requires electronic insulators with high thermal conductivity.