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Small-angle X-ray scattering data from stretched UHMWPE samples

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posted on 2019-08-02, 08:10 authored by Nacho Martin-Fabiani-CarratoNacho Martin-Fabiani-Carrato, Stavros Drakopoulos, Sara Ronca, Austin Minnich, Andrew Robbins
Scattered intensity (arbitrary units) versus scattering vector (in reciprocal Angstroms) data for drawing ratios 2.5, 5, and 7.5.

Supplementary information for 'Ballistic thermal phonons traversing nanocrystalline domains in oriented polyethylene.'

Abstract:
Thermally conductive polymer crystals are of both fundamental and practical interest for their high thermal conductivity that exceeds that of many metals. In particular, polyethylene fibers and oriented films with uniaxial thermal conductivity exceeding 50 Wm−1K−1 have been reported recently, stimulating interest into the underlying microscopic thermal transport processes. While ab-initio calculations have provided insight into microscopic phonon properties for perfect crystals, such properties of actual samples have remained experimentally inaccessible. Here, we report the direct observation of thermal phonons with mean free paths up to 200 nm in semicrystalline polyethylene films using transient grating spectroscopy. Many of the mean free paths substantially exceed the crystalline domain sizes measured using small-angle x-ray scattering, indicating that thermal phonons propagate ballistically within and across the nano-crystalline domains, with those transmitting across domain boundaries contributing nearly a third of the thermal conductivity. Our work provides the first direct determination of thermal phonon propagation lengths in molecular solids, providing insights into the microscopic origins of their high thermal conductivity.

Funding

Thermal conduction in an electrical insulating polymer

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

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ONR Young Investigator Award under Grant No. N00014-15-1-2688

History

School

  • Aeronautical, Automotive, Chemical and Materials Engineering

Department

  • Materials