Journal
JOURNAL OF APPLIED POLYMER SCIENCE
Volume 138, Issue 42, Pages -Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/app.51232
Keywords
dielectric properties; energy storage; nanocomposites; polyolefins; thermal properties
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- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/K034405/1]
- EPSRC [EP/K034405/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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The study reveals the impact of stretching on the structure and properties of dis-UHMWPE composites reinforced with gold nanoparticles. Stretching increases orientation and crystallinity, reduces nanoparticle aggregation, and significantly enhances thermal conductivity and resistivity.
The growing demand for renewable energy sources has prompted the development of dielectric materials with the ability to store and efficiently recover electrical energy. Here, we correlate the structure and thermal conductivity of uniaxially oriented disentangled ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (dis-UHMWPE) composites reinforced with gold nanoparticles with their electrical properties and potential application as electrical energy storage devices. Stretching increases the orientation of the polymer chains and thus the crystallinity and reduces the aggregation of gold nanoparticles while the thermal conductivity enhances significantly along the orientation axis. The structural changes driven by stretching result in two competing effects; on the one hand, the crystallinity increase reduces the permittivity of the composites and increases the resistivity, while on the other hand the recovery efficiency of oriented materials excels that of unstretched samples by up to 6 times at 5 s. Therefore, our work shows the structure-property relationship in electrical energy storage materials.
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