Cu nanoparticle-embedded carbon foams with improved compressive strength and thermal conductivity

Carbon foams (CFms) exhibit excellent physical properties, including good thermal conductivity, low density, high porosity and specific surface area, good vibration damping and shock absorption properties, and low thermal expansion coefficients. These properties are attractive in various applications such as thermal and electrical transfer devices, electrochemical supercapacitors, catalyst supports, gas adsorbents, filtration systems, and electromagnetic shielding. However, compared to metals and polymers, CFms do not exhibit good mechanical or thermal properties because of their porous structure; these shortcomings have limited the application of CFms in various fields [1-4]. © Korean Carbon Society.