Title
Electrical and thermal conductivities of reduced graphene oxide/polystyrene composites
Date Issued
17 March 2014
Access level
open access
Resource Type
research article
Author(s)
Abstract
The author reports an experimental study of electrical and thermal transport in reduced graphene oxide (RGO)/polystyrene (PS) composites. The electrical conductivity (σ) of RGO/PS composites with different RGO concentrations at room temperature shows a percolation behavior with the percolation threshold of ∼0.25 vol. %. Their temperature-dependent electrical conductivity follows Efros-Shklovskii variable range hopping conduction in the temperature range of 30-300 K. The thermal conductivity (κ) of composites is enhanced by ∼90% as the concentration is increased from 0 to 10 vol. %. The thermal conductivity of composites approximately linearly increases with increasing temperature from 150 to 300 K. Composites with a higher concentration show a stronger temperature dependence in the thermal conductivity. © 2014 AIP Publishing LLC.
Volume
104
Issue
11
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería de materiales
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84897824730
Source
Applied Physics Letters
ISSN of the container
00036951
Sponsor(s)
National Science Foundation
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
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