Low-temperature thermal conductivity of Nylon-6/Cu nanoparticles

We have produced a new nanocomposite material made up of a Nylon-6 matrix in which metallic copper nanoparticle (5% in weight) are uniformly dispersed. Here we report about the measurement of the thermal conductivity of such material between 0.1 and 30 K. Thermal conductivity of the nanocomposite does not substantially differ from that of Nylon. Nevertheless data show interesting features, in particular a sharp dip at 1.4 K which can be interpreted as a resonant scattering of phonons by copper nanoparticles.