Thermal percolation in stable graphite suspensions.

@article{Zheng2012ThermalPI,
  title={Thermal percolation in stable graphite suspensions.},
  author={Ruiting Zheng and Jinwei Gao and Jianjian Wang and Shien‐Ping Feng and Hiroko Ohtani and Jinbo Wang and Gang Chen},
  journal={Nano letters},
  year={2012},
  volume={12 1},
  pages={
          188-92
        }
}
Different from the electrical conductivity of conductive composites, the thermal conductivity usually does not have distinctive percolation characteristics. Here we report that graphite suspensions show distinct behavior in the thermal conductivity at the electrical percolation threshold, including a sharp kink at the percolation threshold, below which thermal conductivity increases rapidly while above which the rate of increase is smaller, contrary to the electrical percolation behavior. Based… 
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