Nature Communications (Apr 2016)

Functionalization mediates heat transport in graphene nanoflakes

  • Haoxue Han,
  • Yong Zhang,
  • Nan Wang,
  • Majid Kabiri Samani,
  • Yuxiang Ni,
  • Zainelabideen Y. Mijbil,
  • Michael Edwards,
  • Shiyun Xiong,
  • Kimmo Sääskilahti,
  • Murali Murugesan,
  • Yifeng Fu,
  • Lilei Ye,
  • Hatef Sadeghi,
  • Steven Bailey,
  • Yuriy A. Kosevich,
  • Colin J. Lambert,
  • Johan Liu,
  • Sebastian Volz

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11281
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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The high thermal conductivity of graphene is considerably reduced when the two-dimensional material is in contact with a substrate. Here, the authors show that thermal management of a micro heater is improved using graphene-based films covalently bonded by amino-silane molecules to graphene oxide.