The present invention discloses an aluminum
nitride reinforced
graphite-based
composite material and a preparation process thereof. The aluminum
nitride reinforced
graphite-based
composite material is characterized in that
flake graphite is adopted as a substrate, and aluminum
nitride is adopted as a reinforcing phase and is uniformly distributed between the
graphite laminas so as to form a three-dimensional network
nitrogen aluminum skeleton and directionally-arranged graphite lamina combined anisotropic structure. According to the process,
flake graphite particles, aluminum nitride
powder and an appropriate amount of a
sintering aid are used, material mixing is performed through a
ball mill,
drying screening is performed, pre-pressing molding is performed,
discharge plasma sintering is performed at a temperature of 1500-1700 DEG C,
axial pressure is applied during the
sintering process to make the graphite laminas be directionally arranged, and the three-dimensional network
ceramic skeleton is formed after sintering the aluminum nitride
powder, such that the strength of the
graphite substrate can be significantly increased, and the
thermal expansion of the graphite can be restrained so as to form the compact and uniform anisotropic
composite material with characteristics of high
thermal conductivity along the lamina direction and low
thermal expansion along the vertical lamina direction, wherein the excellent comprehensive performance of the composite material has wide application prospects in the field of
heat transfer, heat dissipating and the like of electronic devices.