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Polyvinyl butyral composites containing halloysite nanotubes/reduced graphene oxide with high dielectric constant and low loss

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posted on 2020-04-06, 10:39 authored by Yaotian Su, Mingping Zhou, Gang Sui, Jinle Lan, Hongtao ZhangHongtao Zhang, Xiaoping Yang
Polymer-based composites with high dielectric constant and low loss are highly desirable due to their inherent advantages of easy processability, flexibility, and lightweight. Herein, a functional nanofillers, halloysite nanotubes (HNTs) decorated reduced graphene oxide (rGO) hybrid microstructures (HNTs@rGO) was successfully prepared via controllable electrostatic self-assembly and in-situ heat reduction method. These hybrid microstructures combine characteristics of natural 1D ceramic nanotubes with large aspect ratio and high electric conductivity of rGO micro-sheets, which provided ideal material collocation in the construction of microcapacitors. The HNTs not only effectively prevented direct contact between the rGO micro-sheets in the composites but also played an important role in forming dielectric interface within microcapacitors. Consequently, an HNTs@rGO/polyvinyl butyral (PVB) composites containing a very low content of 5wt% rGO exhibited an ultra-high dielectric constant of 150 and an extremely low loss of 0.12 at 103 Hz. It is believed that the unique characteristics and facile fabrication process of HNTs@rGO/PVB composite make it a potentially excellent candidate for flexible polymer-based dielectric materials applied in the capacitor fields.

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51873011 and No. U1664251)

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School

  • Aeronautical, Automotive, Chemical and Materials Engineering

Department

  • Materials

Published in

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volume

394

Publisher

Elsevier

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

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© Elsevier

Publisher statement

This paper was accepted for publication in the journal Chemical Engineering Journal and the definitive published version is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2020.124910.

Acceptance date

2020-03-27

Publication date

2020-04-05

Copyright date

2020

ISSN

1385-8947

Language

  • en

Depositor

Dr Hongtao Zhang. Deposit date: 3 April 2020

Article number

124910

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