Abstract
Mesogenic epoxies were adsorbed onto the surface of an MgO filler treated with an amino-silane coupling agent and the epoxy-adsorbed MgO filler was dispersed into the liquid crystalline (LC) epoxy matrix resin to develop a high thermal conductivity composite. The effect on the interfacial interaction and the free volume of the LC epoxy composite was investigated by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), X-ray diffractometry (XRD), and positron annihilation lifetime spectroscopy (PALS). The thermal conductivity of the obtained composite (3.16 W/(m∙K)) was remarkably higher than that of the nonadsorbed MgO system (1.93 W/(m∙K)) at almost the same content of 44–45 vol%. This significant improvement of the thermal conductivity can be attributed to the highly ordered structural formation that was induced by the π-π interaction effect of the mesogenic moieties between the adsorbed epoxies and the matrix resin.
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