Synthesis and characterization of high thermal conductive polymers and fabrication of polymer based thermal strap

Polymers have infiltrated almost every aspect of modern technology. Without polymer products, the society would look very different. As one of the most important and common engineering materials, traditional polymers are both electrically and thermally insulating, due to its organic nature and amorphous structures. In the late 20th century, electrically conductive polymers has been discovered. Thermally conductive polymers, however, were not demonstrated until the recent decades. Polymers are shown to have great potential in thermal conduction, even divergent thermal conductivity in theory. This counterintuitive finding is attributed to its one-dimensional periodic structure, where repeating monomers are connected by strong covalent bonds.

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Master

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2021

Author dc:creator

• Li, Buxuan.

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Gang Chen.

• Mechanical Engineering.

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• MIT theses may be protected by copyright. Please reuse MIT thesis content according to the MIT Libraries Permissions Policy, which is available through the URL provided.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

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eng

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https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/130863

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