Fabrication of vertically aligned pitch-based carbon fiber filled thermal interface materials with high thermal conductivity through improved electrostatic flocking method

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  • 1. Nano-Science & Technology Research Center, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China; 2.School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China

Received date: 2024-01-11

  Online published: 2025-03-03

Abstract

: A method involving secondary electrostatic flocking was used to prepare a ver-tically aligned array of pitch-based carbon fibers. The effects of the improved electrostatic flocking method on the density, perpendicularity, thermal conductivity, and heat trans-fer of the thermally conductive materials filled with pitch-based carbon fiber arrays were studied. The results show that pitch-based carbon fibers prepared with secondary flocking exhibited a significantly improved density and vertical alignment compared with those prepared with one-time flocking under the same flocking time. Additionally, when the film was contracted by 33%, the thermal interface material achieved a high vertical thermal conductivity of 27.4 W/(m·K). The material exhibited a good vertical thermal conductivity, and the preparation process shows great promise for industrial scalability and potential applications in the field of electronic chip heat dissipation.

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WU Meixia, OUYANG Jiangkun, HOU Mengdi, HONG Jianting, DING Peng, WANG Jinhe . Fabrication of vertically aligned pitch-based carbon fiber filled thermal interface materials with high thermal conductivity through improved electrostatic flocking method[J]. Journal of Shanghai University, 2025 , 31(1) : 105 -114 . DOI: 10.12066/j.issn.1007-2861.2571

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