Performance of dielectric nanocomposites: Matrix-free, hairy nanoparticle assemblies and amorphous polymer-nanoparticle blends

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 23, 2014, Pages 21500-21509

  Grabowski, Christopher A ^a,b   Koerner, Hilmar ^a   Meth, Jeffrey S ^c   Dang, Alei ^d   Hui, Chin Ming ^d   Matyjaszewski, Krzysztof ^d   Bockstaller, Michael R ^e   Durstock, Michael F ^a   Vaia, Richard A ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UES INC   (United States)

^c DUPONT COMPANY   (United States)

^d CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

capacitor; colloidal silica; dielectric breakdown; energy storage; permittivity; polymer grafted nanoparticles

Indexed keywords

BLENDING; CAPACITORS; DIELECTRIC DEVICES; DIELECTRIC LOSSES; ELECTRIC BREAKDOWN; ENERGY STORAGE; ESTERS; MORPHOLOGY; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOPARTICLES; PERMITTIVITY; POLYMER BLENDS; POLYMER MATRIX COMPOSITES; SILICA; STORAGE (MATERIALS);

COLLOIDAL SILICA; DIELECTRIC PERFORMANCE; HIGH-MOLECULAR WEIGHT POLYMERS; NANOPARTICLE AGGREGATE; NANOPARTICLE VOLUME FRACTIONS; NANOSTRUCTURED DIELECTRICS; POLYMER NANOCOMPOSITE; POLYMER-GRAFTED NANOPARTICLES;

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS;

EID: 84917710644     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am506521r     Document Type: Article

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