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Vol. 13 (2021)

Spider Web-Inspired Graphene Skeleton-Based High Thermal Conductivity Phase Change Nanocomposites for Battery Thermal Management

https://doi.org/10.1007/s40820-021-00702-7
Ying Lin
Shanghai Key Lab of Electrical Insulation and Thermal Ageing, The State Key Laboratory of Metal Matrix Composites, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, People’s Republic of China
Qi Kang
Shanghai Key Lab of Electrical Insulation and Thermal Ageing, The State Key Laboratory of Metal Matrix Composites, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, People’s Republic of China
Han Wei
University of Michigan‑Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, People’s Republic of China
Hua Bao
University of Michigan‑Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, People’s Republic of China
Pingkai Jiang
Shanghai Key Lab of Electrical Insulation and Thermal Ageing, The State Key Laboratory of Metal Matrix Composites, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, People’s Republic of China
Yiu‑Wing Mai
Centre for Advanced Materials Technology (CAMT), School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering J07, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
Xingyi Huang
Shanghai Key Lab of Electrical Insulation and Thermal Ageing, The State Key Laboratory of Metal Matrix Composites, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, People’s Republic of China

Corresponding Author: Xingyi Huang

xyhuang@sjtu.edu.cn

Nano-Micro Letters, Vol. 13 (2021), Article Number: 180

Abstract

Phase change materials (PCMs) can be used for efficient thermal energy harvesting, which has great potential for cost-effective thermal management and energy storage. However, the low intrinsic thermal conductivity of polymeric PCMs is a bottleneck for fast and efficient heat harvesting. Simultaneously, it is also a challenge to achieve a high thermal conductivity for phase change nanocomposites at low filler loading. Although constructing a three-dimensional (3D) thermally conductive network within PCMs can address these problems, the anisotropy of the 3D framework usually leads to poor thermal conductivity in the direction perpendicular to the alignment of fillers. Inspired by the interlaced structure of spider webs in nature, this study reports a new strategy for fabricating highly thermally conductive phase change composites (sw-GS/PW) with a 3D spider web (sw)-like structured graphene skeleton (GS) by hydrothermal reaction, radial freeze-casting and vacuum impregnation in paraffin wax (PW). The results show that the sw-GS hardly affected the phase transformation behavior of PW at low loading. Especially, sw-GS/PW exhibits both high cross-plane and in-plane thermal conductivity enhancements of ~ 1260% and ~ 840%, respectively, at an ultra-low filler loading of 2.25 vol.%. The thermal infrared results also demonstrate that sw-GS/PW possessed promising applications in battery thermal management.


Highlights:


1 A three-dimensional spider web-inspired structured graphene skeleton is constructed.
2 The spider web-like skeleton endows paraffin wax with a significantly high longitudinal and transverse thermal conductivity enhancement of ~1260% and ~840%, respectively, at 2.25 vol% skeleton.
3 The resultant composites exhibit outstanding performance on the thermal management of Li-ion batteries.

Keywords

Thermal conductivity Radial freeze-casting Phase change materials 3D graphene aerogel Thermal management
Lin, Ying, Qi Kang, Han Wei, Hua Bao, Pingkai Jiang, Yiu‑Wing Mai, and Xingyi Huang. 2021. “Spider Web-Inspired Graphene Skeleton-Based High Thermal Conductivity Phase Change Nanocomposites for Battery Thermal Management”. Nano-Micro Letters 13 (August):180. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40820-021-00702-7.
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