English to French Tech/Engineering Patents IMPROVED THERMAL INTERFACE MATERIAL

The organic reducing agent increases the expanded volume (also referred to as "worm volume") upon exfoliation and is referred to as an expansion aid.

Another class of expansion aids that can be added to the intercalating solution, or to the graphite flake prior to intercalation, and work synergistically with the above-described organic reducing agents are carboxylic acids.

An expansion aid in this context will advantageously be sufficiently soluble in the intercalation solution to achieve an improvement in expansion.