Abstract Carbon nanotubes/epoxy composites are increasingly employed in several industrial fields, because of the enhanced material properties provided by nanofillers. In particular, thermal conductivity these nanocomposites is determined heat transfer mechanisms occurring over multiple scales, thus causing a complex relation between effective response and microscopic characteristics material. ...

In this study, a technique is presented for developing constitutive models for polymer composite systems reinforced with single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNT). Because the polymer molecules are on the same size scale as the nanotubes, the interaction at the polymer/nanotube interface is highly dependent on the local molecular structure and bonding. At these small length scales, the lattice stru...