All-organic dielectric nanocomposites using conducting polypyrrole nanoclips as filler

All-organic nanocomposites using conducting polypyrrole (PPy) nano-clips as fillers and poly(vinylidene fluoride-chlorotrifluoroethylene) (PVDF-CTFE) as the matrix are studied. The nanocomposites with a uniform microstructure were fabricated via a combination of a solution casting and a hot pressing...

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Published in:Composites science and technology 2018-10, Vol.167, p.285-293
Main Authors: Zhang, Lin, Lu, Xu, Zhang, Xinyu, Jin, Li, Xu, Zhuo, Cheng, Z.-Y.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Chlorotrifluoroethylene
Dielectric loss
Dielectric properties
Dielectric relaxation
Fillers
Glass transition temperature
Hot pressing
Low temperature physics
Microstructure
Nano-clips
Nanocomposites
P(VDF-CTFE)
Percolation
Permittivity
Polypyrroles
PPy
Vinylidene
Vinylidene fluoride
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Summary:All-organic nanocomposites using conducting polypyrrole (PPy) nano-clips as fillers and poly(vinylidene fluoride-chlorotrifluoroethylene) (PVDF-CTFE) as the matrix are studied. The nanocomposites with a uniform microstructure were fabricated via a combination of a solution casting and a hot pressing process. Due to the uniform microstructure, the composites exhibit a single glass transition process, whose temperature decreases with increasing PPy content. The dielectric properties of the nanocomposites are systemically studied and analyzed over a wide temperature range from −60 °C to 140 °C and a broad frequency range from 100 Hz to 1 MHz. The nanocomposites have a low percolation threshold (∼7.4 wt%) and exhibit a high dielectric constant and a low dielectric loss. For the composites with 7 wt% of PPy at room temperature, the dielectric constant at 1 kHz is 23 times higher than that of the polymer matrix and the dielectric loss over a broad frequency range is less than 0.4 which is lower than the loss reported in other composites with the composition close to the percolation threshold. It is concluded that mixing PPy with P(VDF-CTFE) results in a new relaxation process that dominates the observed dielectric loss at low temperatures including room temperature. It is demonstrated that it is the DC conductivity rather than the dielectric constant that should be used to determine the percolation threshold.
ISSN:0266-3538
1879-1050
DOI:10.1016/j.compscitech.2018.08.017