Hanyang University · Materials Science
Professor Seong Yun Kim's research lab specializes in the development and characterization of advanced polymer nanocomposites with enhanced thermal transport properties. The lab focuses on designing thermally conductive materials through strategic control of filler morphology, interfacial engineering, and microstructure optimization, particularly using carbon-based nanomaterials such as graphene, carbon nanotubes, and carbon fibers. Key research directions include thermal percolation behavior, interfacial phonon scattering, and synergistic effects in hybrid filler systems to achieve high thermal conductivity with low filler loading. The lab also explores innovative processing techniques to preserve nanostructure integrity and improve thermal performance in aerogel and epoxy-based composites.
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Contrary to expectation, the thermal conductivity of carbon‐polymer nanocomposites has been reported to be low near the lower boundary of the rule of mixtures. Various dispersing processes have been developed to achieve uniform dispersion of the nanocarbon fillers, including an in situ polymerization process based on ring‐opening polymerizable oligoesters. However, even if the nanofiller is well dispersed, phonon scattering due to the interfacial thermal resistance at the nanofiller‐matrix inter
Numerous studies have been reported on thermal interface materials based on synergistic hybrid effects, however, most of them contain only fragmentary experimental results and the related model has been rarely proposed to explain the effects exactly. Herein, the thermal conductivities of the composites were systematically evaluated according to various filler contents and ratios. It was found that the fraction of the secondary filler inducing the maximum synergistic effect decreased as the total
Effect of the sizes and shapes of the diverse carbon allotropes such as carbon black, carbon nanotube, graphene nanoplatelet, graphite, pitch‐based carbon fiber (PCF), and expanded graphite (EG) on the thermal conductivity of polymer composites is investigated. Effective improvement of the thermal conductivity of composites with microsized one‐dimensional (1D) PCF and EG including the intercalation spacing is observed due to efficient formation of thermal transfer networks and little phonon scat
Abstract The thermal conductivity of aerogel/epoxy composite based on the inexpensive powder form of silica aerogels by using water glass under ambient drying conditions was evaluated to investigate the relationship between the internal structure and the thermal conductivity of the composite. A high thermal conductivity was obtained for the composite fabricated by the typical liquid epoxy processing because the pores of the aerogels became filled with the epoxy resin during the processing of the
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