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Authors Ameli, A. ; Nofar, M. ; Park, C. B. ; Pötschke, P. ; Rizvi, G.
Title Polypropylene/carbon nanotube nano/microcellular structures with high dielectric permittivity, low dielectric loss, and low percolation threshold
Date 07.04.2014
Number 40743
Abstract Nano/microcellular polypropylene/multiwalled carbon nanotube (MWCNT) composites exhibiting higher electrical conductivity, lower electrical percolation, higher dielectric permittivity, and lower dielectric loss are reported. Nanocomposite foams with relative densities (·R) of 1.0–0.1, cell sizes of 70 nm–70 µm, and cell densities of 3 × 107–2 × 1014 cells cm-3 are achieved, providing a platform to assess the evolution of electrical properties with foaming degree. The electrical percolation threshold decreases more than fivefold, from 0.50 down to 0.09 vol.%, as the volume expansion increases through foaming. The electrical conductivity increases up to two orders of magnitude in the nanocellular nanocomposites (1.0 > ·R > ~0.6). In the proper microcellular range (·R ˜ 0.45), the introduction of cellular structure decreases the dielectric loss up to five orders of magnitude, while the decrease in dielectric permittivity is only 2–4 times. Thus, microcellular composites containing only ~0.34 vol.% MWCNT present a frequency-independent high dielectric permittivity (~30) and very low dielectric loss (~0.06). The improvements in such properties are correlated to the microstructural evolution caused by foaming action (biaxial stretching) and volume exclusion. High conductivity foams have applications in electromagnetic shielding and high dielectric foams can be developed for charge storage applications.
Publisher Carbon
Wikidata
Citation Carbon 71 (2014) 206-217
DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carbon.2014.01.031
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