Positive temperature coefficient thermistors based on carbon nanotube/polymer composites

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Zeng, You ^a   Lu, Guixia ^b,c   Wang, Han ^a,c   Du, Jinhong ^a   Ying, Zhe ^a   Liu, Chang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF METAL RESEARCH   (China)

^b SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SHENYANG JIANZHU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84946841025     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep06684     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Nan, C. W., Shen, Y. & Ma, J. Physical properties of composites near percolation. Annu. Rev. Mater. Sci. 40, 131-151 (2010).
2. He, X. J., and Du, J. H., Ying, Z., Cheng, H. M. & He, X. J. Positive temperature coefficient effect in multiwalled carbon nanotube/high-density polyethylene composites. Appl. Phys. Lett. 86, 062112 (2005).
3. Park, E. S. Resistivity and thermal reproducibility of high-density polyethylene heaters filled with carbon black. Macromol. Mater. Eng. 291, 690-696 (2006).
4. Ajayan, P. M. & Tour, J. M. Nanotube composites. Nature 447, 1066-1068 (2007).
5. Endo, M., Strano, M. S. & Ajayan, P. M. in Carbon Nanotubes Vol. 111, (eds Jorio, A. Dresselhaus, G. & Dresselhaus M. S.) 13-61 (Springer, 2008).
6. Lee, J. H., Kim, S. K. & Kim, N. H. Effects of the addition of multi-walled carbon nanotubes on the positive temperature coefficient characteristics of carbon-black-filled high-density polyethylene nanocomposites. Scripta Mater. 55, 1119-1122 (2006).
7. Kalappa, P. et al. Effect of polyaniline functionalized carbon nanotubes addition on the positive temperature coefficient behavior of carbon black/high-density polyethylene nanocomposites. IEEE T. Nanotechnol. 7, 223-228 (2008).
8. Jeevananda, T. et al. Investigation of multi-walled carbon nanotube-reinforced high-density polyethylene/carbon black nanocomposites using electrical, DSC and positron lifetime spectroscopy techniques. Polym. Int. 58, 775-780 (2009).
9. Lisunova, M. O., and Mamunya, Y. P., Lebovka, N. I. & Melezhyk, A. V. Percolation behaviour of ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene/multi-walled carbon nanotubes composites. Eur. Polym. J. 43, 949-958 (2007).
10. Gao, J. F., and Li, Z. M., Peng, S. & Yan, D. X. Temperature-resistivity behaviour of CNTs/UHMWPE composites with a two-dimensional conductive network. Polym.-Plast. Technol. Eng. 48, 478-481 (2009).
11. Jiang, S. L. et al. Positive temperature coefficient properties of multiwall carbon nanotubes/poly(vinylidene fluoride) nanocomposites. J. Appl. Polym. Sci. 116, 838-842 (2010).
12. Zeng, Y., Ying, Z., Wu, F. Y. & Cheng, H. M. in Carbon2006, the International Carbon Conference (Scotland, 2006).
13. Zeng, Y. et al. Increasing the electrical conductivity of carbon nanotube/polymer composites by using weak nanotube-polymer interactions. Carbon 48, 3551-3558 (2010).
14. Li, Q., Basavarajaiah, S., Kim, N. H., Heo, S. B. & Lee, J. H. Synergy effect of hybrid fillers on the positive temperature coefficient behavior of polypropylene/ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene composites. J. Appl. Polym. Sci. 116, 116-124 (2010).
15. Lu, C. et al. Influence of morphology on PTC effect for poly (ethylene-co-butyl acrylate)/nylon6 blends with multiwall carbon nanotubes dispersed at interface and in matrix. Polym. Bull. 71, 545-561 (2014).
16. Pang, H. et al. Temperature resistivity behaviour in carbon nanotube/ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene composites with segregated and double percolated structure. Plast. Rubber Compos. 42, 59-65 (2013).
17. Zha, J.-W., Li, W.-K., Liao, R.-J., Bai, J. & Dang, Z.-M. High performance hybrid carbon fillers/binary-polymer nanocomposites with remarkably enhanced positive temperature coefficient effect of resistance. J. Mater. Chem. A 1, 843-851 (2013).
18. He, L. X. & Tjong, S. C. Direct current conductivity of carbon nanofiber-based conductive polymer composites: effects of temperature and electric field. J. Nanosci. Nanotechnol. 11, 3916-3921 (2011).
19. Isaji, S., Bin, Y. Z. & Matsuo, M. Electrical and self-heating properties of UHMWPE-EMMA-NiCF composite films. J. Polym. Sci., Part B: Polym. Phys. 47, 1253-1266 (2009).
20. Isaji, S., Bin, Y. & Matsuo, M. Electrical conductivity and self-temperature-control heating properties of carbon nanotubes filled polyethylene films. Polymer 50, 1046-1053 (2009).
21. Song, Y. H. & Zheng, Q. Electric self-heating behavior of acetylene carbon black filled high-density polyethylene composites. Polym. Int. 53, 1517-1522 (2004).
22. Song, Y. H., Yi, X. S. & Pan, Y. The electric self-heating behavior of carbon black loaded high density polyethylene composites. J. Mater. Sci. Lett. 19, 299-301 (2000).
23. Lu, W., Lin, H. F. & Chen, G. H. Voltage-induced resistivity relaxation in a high-density polyethylene/graphite nanosheet composite. J. Polym. Sci., Part B: Polym. Phys. 45, 860-863 (2007).
24. Song, Y. H. & Zheng, Q. Influence of irradiation crosslinking on the self-heating and conduction of an acetylene carbon black filled high-density polyethylene composite in the electric-thermal equilibrium state. J. Appl. Polym. Sci. 110, 3009-3013 (2008).
25. Song, Y. H. & Zheng, Q. Nonlinear conduction of irradiation-crosslinked high-density polyethylene/acetylene carbon black composites at the electric-thermal equilibrium state. J. Polym. Sci., Part B: Polym. Phys. 44, 1979-1984 (2006).
26. Sandler, J. K. W., and Kirk, J. E., Kinloch, I. A., Shaffer, M. S. P. & Windle, A. H. Ultra-low electrical percolation threshold in carbon-nanotube-epoxy composites. Polymer 44, 5893-5899 (2003).
27. Du, J. et al. Comparison of electrical properties between multi-walled carbon nanotube and graphene nanosheet/high density polyethylene composites with a segregated network structure. Carbon 49, 1094-1100 (2011).
28. Stauffer, D. & Aharony, A. Introduction to Percolation Theory. 2nd edn, 34-40 (Taylor and Francis, 2003).
29. Wu, F., He, X., Zeng, Y. & Cheng, H.M. Thermal transport enhancementofmulti-walled carbon nanotubes/high-density polyethylene composites. Appl. Phys. A 85, 25-28 (2006).
30. Zeng, Y., and Ci, L. J., Carey, B. J., Vajtai, R. & Ajayan, P. M. Design and reinforcement: vertically aligned carbon nanotube-based sandwich composites. ACS Nano 4, 6798-6804 (2010).