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Thermal properties of AlN (nano) filled LDPE composites

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International Journal of Materials Research
From the journal International Journal of Materials Research Volume 114 Issue 7-8

Abstract

The thermal properties of aluminium nitride nano-particles (n-AlN) filled into low-density polyethylene (LDPE) are discussed. Cylindrical specimens were prepared using a melt mixing process. X-ray diffraction was performed to characterize the structural properties of the pellets under investigation. The X-ray diffraction analysis confirms the change in secondary structure, such as crystallinity, of the LDPE due to the dispersion of n-AlN powder. The thermal stability of pure and n-AlN filled LDPE was checked by performing thermo-gravimetric analysis. The analysis confirms an improvement in the thermal stability of LDPE due to n-AlN addition. The thermal conductivity of the samples was measured using a KD2 Pro device (based on the transient hot wire technique of thermal conductivity measurement) at room temperature. Our finding reveals ∼1.36 fold enhancement in the effective thermal conductivity of LDPE due to the addition of 15 vol.% of n-AlN. The room-temperature thermal conductivity data of the investigated pellets were analyzed as a function of n-AlN concentration in the light of available theoretical models and correlations. The variation in thermal conductivity data of LDPE with n-AlN concentration is well explained by the semi-empirical model proposed by Agari and Uno.

Keywords: LDPE/n-AlN composites; Melt mixing; TGA; Thermal conductivity
PACS Nos.: 81.05.Qk; 81.20.Hy; 81.70.Pg
Corresponding author: Dinesh Tripathi, Department of Physics and Materials Science and Engineering, Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida-62, Noida, U.P. 201309, India, E-mail:

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Received: 2021-12-24
Accepted: 2023-01-27
Published Online: 2023-05-24
Published in Print: 2023-07-28

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Keywords for this article
LDPE/n-AlN composites; Melt mixing; TGA; Thermal conductivity

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