Sustainable high capacitance at high frequencies: Metallic aluminum-polypropylene nanocomposites

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 396-407

  Fredin, Lisa A ^a   Li, Zhong ^a   Lanagan, Michael T ^b   Ratner, Mark A ^a   Marks, Tobin J ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The Center for Nanotechnology Education and Utilization   (United States)

Author keywords

dielectric loss; dielectric materials; frequency response; inhomogeneous media; metal insulator structures; metallic nanoparticle; nanocomposite

Indexed keywords

AL-NANOPARTICLES; COMPLEX PERMITTIVITY; EFFECTIVE PERMITTIVITY; ELECTRICAL MEASUREMENT; HIGH FREQUENCY; HIGH FREQUENCY RESPONSE; HIGH PERMITTIVITY; HIGH-FREQUENCY DIELECTRICS; INHOMOGENEOUS MEDIA; LOWER FREQUENCIES; MAXWELL-WAGNER-SILLARS; METAL INSULATORS; METALLIC ALUMINUM; METALLIC NANOPARTICLES; METALLOCENE POLYMERIZATION; MIXING THEORY; NANOPARTICLE AGGREGATE; POLYPROPYLENE MATRICES; POLYPROPYLENE NANOCOMPOSITES;

ALUMINUM; DIELECTRIC LOSSES; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; DIELECTRIC RELAXATION; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; METAL INSULATOR BOUNDARIES; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOPARTICLES; ORGANOMETALLICS; PERMITTIVITY; POLYPROPYLENES; THERMOPLASTICS; VOLUME FRACTION; ZIRCONIUM;

NANOCOMPOSITE FILMS;

ALUMINUM; METAL NANOPARTICLE; POLYPROPYLENE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRIC CAPACITANCE; IMPEDANCE; MATERIALS TESTING; MICROWAVE RADIATION;

ALUMINUM; ELECTRIC CAPACITANCE; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; MATERIALS TESTING; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MICROWAVES; POLYPROPYLENES;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84872859159     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn3044148     Document Type: Article

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