Thermal expansion of Cu/carbon nanotube composite wires and the effect of Cu-spatial distribution

Autor: Rajyashree Sundaram, Takeo Yamada, Kenji Hata, Atsuko Sekiguchi
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Journal of Materials Research and Technology, Vol 9, Iss 3, Pp 6944-6949 (2020)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2238-7854
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmrt.2020.03.094
Popis: We report for the first time the coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) of Cu/carbon nanotube (Cu/CNT) macroscopic wire composites and its strong dependence on CNT-Cu mixing. Homogeneous composite wires with 40 vol% nanotubes uniformly mixed in continuous Cu matrix showed CTE ∼4.42 × 10−6 °C-1 (∼26% Cu-CTE and similar to Si-CTE). The value matches with Turner’s model predictions implying that when nanotube-Cu shared contact is high, both low thermal expansion and high bulk modulus of CNTs contribute to offsetting Cu thermal expansion. In contrast, absence of or non-uniform CNT-Cu mixing i.e., reduced shared interface led to higher wire-composite CTEs (∼53−92% Cu-CTE) even with higher CNT vol%.
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