Interconnecting the Promising MXenes via Ag Nanowire in Epoxy Nanocomposites for High-Performance Thermal Management Applications

MXenes emerged as the new layered 2D semiconductors have exhibited many intriguing electrical, thermal and optical properties. Therefore, the promising highly thermal conductive property is not yet to be well investigated. Herein, we employ MXenes (Ti₃C₂) as thermal filler in epoxy nanocomposites, in which the particulate MXenes is wrapped and interconnected by Ag nanowire. The room-temperature thermal conductivity of Ag/Ti₃C₂ epoxy nanocomposite is found to be 7.60 W m^-1 K^-1 at a relatively low loading of 15 wt%, which is more than two-fold higher than pure Ti₃C₂ (3.51 W m^-1 K^-1). Based on the present investigation, developing MXenes based nanocomposites could be extremely promising for thermal management applications.