The Closest Thing to Graphene | Pyrolytic Graphite Sheets (PGS) have Unique Thermal Properties

Today's video will be the first of many exploring the awesome thermal interface materials that are Pyrolytic Graphite Sheets, or PGS.

This is a video I've been waiting quite a while to release, where I'll introduce this graphene-like material, its unique thermal properties, and one of the ways in which I plan to use it. (I have many different ideas for using it, especially for electrochemistry)

Pyrolytic Graphite Sheets are made of highly ordered, stacked sheets of graphene, this gives them some super-unique thermal properties like having an anisotropic thermal conductivity in the 'In-Plane' direction that exceeds that of basically all metals. This is a material I found while trying to find somewhere to get Graphene sheets, and this was as close as I could get, however, as we'll learn in this video, the two may not be so dissimilar after all.

Link to the Article by HPMS Graphite: https://hpmsgraphite.com/pyrolyticgra...

Link to the ResearchGate Article with the Image of the Graphite Layers:
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/a...

Wikipedia Page on Graphitization:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphit...

Wikipedia Page on Sintering:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sintering

Panasonic Industrial Website on PGS Graphite Sheets:
https://na.industrial.panasonic.com/p...

Article on Conductive Heat Transfer (Image source for In-Plane vs Through-Plane thermal conductivity):
https://conceptgroupllc.com/glossary/...