High breakdown-strength composites from liquid silicone rubbers

Smart Materials and Structures

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Vudayagiri, Sindhu ^a   Zakaria, Shamsul ^a   Yu, Liyun ^a   Hassouneh, Suzan Sager ^a   Benslimane, Mohamed ^b   Skov, Anne Ladegaard ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b DANFOSS A S   (Denmark)

Author keywords

dielectric breakdown; dielectric permittivity; dielectric electroactive polymers; figure of merit; liquid silicone rubbers

Indexed keywords

CONDUCTING POLYMERS; DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES OF LIQUIDS; ELASTIC MODULI; ELASTOMERS; ELECTRIC BREAKDOWN; FILLERS; LIQUIDS; PERMITTIVITY; SHELLS (STRUCTURES); SILICONES; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

CORE-SHELL MORPHOLOGIES; DIELECTRIC ELASTOMER TRANSDUCERS; DIELECTRIC ELECTROACTIVE POLYMERS; DIELECTRIC PERMITTIVITIES; ELECTRICAL BREAKDOWN STRENGTHS; FIGURE OF MERITS; LIQUID SILICONE RUBBERS; RELATIVE DIELECTRIC PERMITTIVITY;

RUBBER;

EID: 84907192467     PISSN: 09641726     EISSN: 1361665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/23/10/105017     Document Type: Article

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