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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SMART AND NANO MATERIALS
Volume 6, Issue 4, Pages 251-267Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/19475411.2015.1130757
Keywords
graphene oxide (GO)-encapsulated silica (SiO2) hybrids; electrostatic self-assembly; polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) elastomer; dielectric constant (k) and mechanical properties; actuated strain at low electric field
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51173007, 51103090, 51221002]
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Herein, graphene oxide (GO)-encapsulated silica (SiO2) hybrids (GO@SiO2) were prepared via electrostatic self-assembly of the 3-aminopropyltriethoxysilane (APS)-modified SiO2 and GO. The as-prepared GO@SiO2 was introduced into polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) elastomer to simultaneously increase the dielectric constant (k) and mechanical properties of PDMS. Then, the in situ thermal reduction of GO@SiO2/PDMS composites was conducted at 180 degrees C for 2 h to increase the interfacial polarizability of GO@SiO2. As a result, the values of k at 1000 Hz are largely improved from 3.2 for PDMS to 13.3 for the reduced GO@SiO2 (RGO@SiO2)/PDMS elastomer. Meanwhile, the dielectric loss of the composites remains low (<0.2 at 1000 Hz). More importantly, the actuated strain at low electric field (5 kV/mm) obviously increases from 0.3% for pure PDMS to 2.59% for the composites with 60 phr of RGO@SiO2, an eightfold increase in the actuated strain. In addition, both the tensile strength and elastic modulus are obviously improved by adding 60 phr of RGO@SiO2, indicating a good reinforcing effect of RGO@SiO2 on PDMS. Our goal is to develop a simple and effective way to improve the actuated performance and mechanical strength of the PDMS dielectric elastomer for its wider application.
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