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Alexander A Minakov1, Christoph Schick2,3
1Prokhorov General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, GPI RAS, Vavilov str. 38, 119991 Moscow, Russia.
Abstract:
Nanometer scale heat conduction in a polymer/carbon nanotube (CNT) composite under fast thermal perturbations is described by linear integrodifferential equations with dynamic heat capacity. The heat transfer problem for local fast thermal perturbations around CNT is considered. An analytical solution for the nonequilibrium thermal response of the polymer matrix around CNT under local pulse heating is obtained. The dynamics of the temperature distribution around CNT depends significantly on the CNT parameters and the thermal contact conductance of the polymer/CNT interface. The effect of dynamic heat capacity on the local overheating of the polymer matrix around CNT is considered. This local overheating can be enhanced by very fast (about 1 ns) components of the dynamic heat capacity of the polymer matrix. The results can be used to analyze the heat transfer process at the early stages of "shish-kebab" crystal structure formation in CNT/polymer composites.
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