Heat-conducting polymer cools hot electronic devices at 200 degrees Celsius
Sunday, March 30, 2014 - 12:00
in Physics & Chemistry
Polymer materials are usually thermal insulators. But by harnessing an electropolymerization process to produce aligned arrays of polymer nanofibers, researchers have developed a thermal interface material able to conduct heat 20 times better than the original polymer. The modified material can reliably operate at temperatures of up to 200 degrees Celsius.