Abstract
Multigrained or polycrystalline composite materials have attracted a considerable attention due to their potential applications as advanced materials with outstanding thermal, mechanical, and electromagnetic properties. When the grains' morphology is displayed at the nanoscopic scale, the presence of imperfect interfaces plays a central role in determining the effective transport properties. Therefore, we develop here a self-consistent effective medium theory able to evaluate the influence of real contacts between the different phases of multigrained composite materials. This approach takes into account the classical interface schemes that have been introduced in literature, namely, the low and the high conducting interface models. The theoretical results have been compared with numerical and experimental data concerning the thermal conductivity of (1−x)Si:xGe mixtures and the electrical conductivity of (1−x)Li2O:xB2O3 composites.
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