We report the thermal degradation of a solid film of polypropylene carbonate, driven by the photothermal effect of gold nanoparticles. We provide characterization of the products of this chemical reaction and use the known activation barrier for this chemical reaction to discuss the temperatures obtained in the film. In addition, we report the efficiency of the reaction as a function of nanopar...

Abstract In this work, we show the route to obtain thermoplastic based composites with an enhanced thermal conductivity that was achieved by using exfoliated hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) particles as a filler material. Reports on bulk or nano hBN showed, while increasing load improves properties it could aggravate composite melt rheology and mechanical properties. On other hand, compared nanop...