Journal of Inorganic Materials

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Thermal Conductivity of Electric Molding Composites Filled with β-Si3N4

HU Yuan1, CHEN Ke-Xin1, JIN Hai-Bo2, FU Ren-Li3   

  1. (1. State Key of New Ceramics and Fine Processing, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China; 2. Discipline of Materials Science & Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China; 3. Discipline of Materials Science & Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, China)
  • Received:2006-11-13 Revised:2007-05-15 Published:2007-11-20 Online:2007-11-20

Abstract: New electric molding composites were fabricated with hybridizing epoxy and β-Si3N4 instead of silica. The thermal conductivity of composites filled with β-Si3N4 was compared with that co-filled with β-Si3N4 and SiO2. The results demonstrate that the thermal conductivity of the composite increases obviously with the increasing of β-Si3N4 content. Thermal conductivity of β-Si3N4-filled composite is about 3.8 times as large as that of SiO2-filled one when the additional volume fraction achieves to 50%. Based on the experimental results, the discussion of calculating model for predicting thermal conductivity of composites shows that Agari model is more applicable to predict the thermal conductivities of β-Si3N4 filled and β-Si3N4/SiO2 co-filled composites. Furthermore, a common expression of Agari model for co-filled composites and its parameters are given.

Key words: β-Si3N4, SiO2, electric molding composite, thermal conductivity

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