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Thermal Conductivity of Indium–Graphene and Indium-Gallium–Graphene Composites

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Samples of graphene composites with a matrix of indium or indium-gallium alloy were prepared in the form of foils using exfoliated graphene dispersions. The thermal conductivity of the composite samples with different thicknesses was determined using the three-omega method. Indium–graphene composite samples with a thickness of 430 μm exhibited a twofold increase in thermal conductivity, whereas indium-gallium–graphene composite samples with a thickness of 330 μm exhibited a threefold improvement in thermal conductivity over that of the matrix at 300 K. The effective medium approximation (EMA) was used to model the thermal conductivity of the composite samples. The graphene platelet size distribution was used to determine the average thermal conductivity of graphene in the composite samples. The interfacial thermal conductance between graphene and indium or indium-gallium alloy determined from EMA was not the limiting factor in the improvement of the thermal conductivity of the composite samples, although the increase in thermal conductivity was found to be slightly lower than predicted theoretically using acoustic and diffuse mismatch models. The smaller size of the graphene platelets obtained by exfoliation prior to dispersion in the matrix appears to be the limiting factor.

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Jagannadham, K. Thermal Conductivity of Indium–Graphene and Indium-Gallium–Graphene Composites. J. Electron. Mater. 40, 25–34 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11664-010-1391-1

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