Enhancement of the heat conduction performance of boron nitride/cellulosic fibre insulating composites

PLoS One. 2018 Jul 19;13(7):e0200842. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0200842. eCollection 2018.

Abstract

The continuous development of high electrical equipment towards high power output requires better heat dissipation performance of internal insulation structure. It challenges the traditional paper-based insulating materials, with poor thermal conductivity. Introducing thermally conductive and electrically insulating filler into cellulose-based insulating material can enhance heat conduction performance. This work provided a method to prepare thermally conductive and electrically insulating BN/cellulosic fibre composites. And the thermal conductivity of the composites was remarkably increased via grafting APTES and adding dual-sized fillers. The thermal conductivity of the composite reached 0.682 W/(m•k) that increased by 387% with h-BN loading of 41.08 wt%. Simultaneously, BN fillers improved the insulating properties of the resultant composites. The dielectric constant, breaking strength of and volume resistivity of the composites reached 4.75, 9.2 kV/mm-1 and 4.72×10(14) Ω•m, respectively. The resultant insulating material which has better heat conduction property may have a vast potential for future development in electrical equipment.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Boron Compounds / chemistry*
  • Cellulose / chemistry*
  • Hot Temperature
  • Nanostructures / chemistry*
  • Polymers / chemistry*
  • Thermal Conductivity

Substances

  • Boron Compounds
  • Polymers
  • boron nitride
  • Cellulose

Grants and funding

The authors were funded by National Natural Science of China (Project No.31470599) and the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions in China.