TY - JOUR
T1 - Gold/ultra‐high molecular weight polyethylene nanocomposites for electrical energy storage: Enhanced recovery efficiency upon uniaxial deformation
AU - Drakopoulos, Stavros X.
AU - Manika, Georgia C.
AU - Nogales, Aurora
AU - Kim, Taeyong
AU - Robbins, Andrew B.
AU - Claudio, Gianfranco
AU - Minnich, Austin J.
AU - Ezquerra, Tiberio A.
AU - Psarras, Georgios C.
AU - Martin‐fabiani, Ignacio
AU - Ronca, Sara
PY - 2021/6/2
Y1 - 2021/6/2
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - dielectric properties
KW - energy storage
KW - nanocomposites
KW - polyolefins
KW - thermal properties
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85107053499&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1002/app.51232
DO - 10.1002/app.51232
M3 - Article
SN - 0021-8995
VL - 138
JO - Journal of Applied Polymer Science
JF - Journal of Applied Polymer Science
IS - 42
M1 - 51232
ER -