Thermal conductivity of ribbon-shaped carbon fibers

N. C. Gallego, D. D. Edie, B. Nysten, J. P. Issi, J. W. Treleaven, G. V. Deshpande

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Abstract

The thermal conductivity of ribbon-shaped fibers produced at Clemson University and graphitized at 2400 °C and of commercial round fibers graphitized at temperatures above 3000 °C were measured by two different methods. One instrument, located at BP Amoco in Alpharetta, GA, measures a fiber sample's thermal response to an oscillating heat input. This device was used to measure room-temperature thermal conductivity of the fibers. A second apparatus, located at the University of Louvain-la-Neuve in Belgium, measures a fiber sample's thermal response to a controlled thermal gradient. This device was used to measure the temperature dependence of the thermal conductivity of selected fiber sets. The results will be presented and the accuracy of the two methods compared.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1003-1010
Number of pages8
JournalCarbon
Volume38
Issue number7
DOIs
StatePublished - 2000
Externally publishedYes

Funding

The authors wish to thank the US Department of the Navy, Office of Naval Research for supporting this work (Contract #N00014-95-1-1345). Special thanks are also due to Albert Bertram, technical monitor of the project on high thermal conductivity carbon fibers. B. Nysten is a Research Associate of the Belgian National Funds for Scientific Research (F.N.R.S.). This work made use of ERC share facilities supported by the National Science Foundation under Award Number EEC-9731680. This work was supported in part by the ERC Program of the National Science Foundation under Award Number EEC-9731680.

FundersFunder number
National Science FoundationEEC-9731680
Office of Naval Research00014-95-1-1345
U.S. Navy
European Research Council

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