Dielectric performance of high permitivity nanocomposites: impact of polystyrene grafting on BaTiO3 and TiO2

Nanocomposites

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 117-124

  Grabowski, Christopher A ^a,b   Fillery, Scott P ^a   Koerner, Hilmar ^a   Tchoul, Maxim ^a   Drummy, Lawrence ^a   Beier, Christopher W ^c   Brutchey, Richard L ^c   Durstock, Michael F ^a   Vaia, Richard A ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UES INC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Barium titanate; Dielectric breakdown; Hairy nanoparticles; Polymer nanocomposites; Titanium dioxide

Indexed keywords

BARIUM TITANATE; BLENDING; DIELECTRIC DEVICES; DIELECTRIC LOSSES; DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES OF SOLIDS; ELECTRIC BREAKDOWN; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ENERGY STORAGE; GRAFTING (CHEMICAL); HIGH-K DIELECTRIC; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOPARTICLES; OXIDE MINERALS; PARTICLE SEPARATORS; POLYMER MATRIX COMPOSITES; POLYSTYRENES; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

DIELECTRIC BREAKDOWN STRENGTH; DIELECTRIC PERFORMANCE; ENERGY STORAGE DENSITY; ENERGY STORAGE EFFICIENCIES; HAIRY NANOPARTICLES; NANOPARTICLE FUNCTIONALIZATION; NANOPARTICLE INTERFACES; POLYMER NANOCOMPOSITE;

TIO2 NANOPARTICLES;

EID: 85012978191     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20550332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/20550324.2016.1223913     Document Type: Article

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