Significantly Improved Dielectric Performance of Poly(1-butene)-Based Composite Films via Filling Polydopamine Modified Ba(Zr0.2Ti0.8)O3-Coated Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes Nanoparticles

Lingfei Li; Qiu Sun; Xiangqun Chen; Zhaohua Jiang; Yongjun Xu

doi:10.3390/polym13020285

Significantly Improved Dielectric Performance of Poly(1-butene)-Based Composite Films via Filling Polydopamine Modified Ba(Zr_0.2Ti_0.8)O₃-Coated Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes Nanoparticles

Polymers (Basel). 2021 Jan 17;13(2):285. doi: 10.3390/polym13020285.

Authors

Lingfei Li¹, Qiu Sun¹, Xiangqun Chen², Zhaohua Jiang¹, Yongjun Xu¹

Affiliations

¹ School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China.
² School of Materials Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China.

Abstract

The low dielectric constant of the nonpolar polymer poly(1-butene) (PB-1) limits its application as a diaphragm element in energy storage capacitors. In this work, Ba(Zr_0.2Ti_0.8)O₃-coated multiwalled carbon nanotubes (BZT@MWCNTs) were first prepared by using the sol-gel hydrothermal method and then modified with polydopamine (PDA) via noncovalent polymerization. Finally, PB-1 matrix composite films filled with PDA-modified BZT@MWCNTs nanoparticles were fabricated through a solution-casting method. Results indicated that the PDA-modified BZT@MWCNTs had good dispersion and binding force in the PB-1 matrix. These characteristics improved the dielectric and energy storage performances of the films. Specifically, the PDA-modified 10 vol% BZT@ 0.5 vol% MWCNTs/PB-1 composite film exhibited the best dielectric performance. At 1 kHz, the dielectric constant of this film was 25.43, which was 12.7 times that of pure PB-1 films. Moreover, its dielectric loss was 0.0077. Furthermore, under the weak electric field of 210 MV·m^-1, the highest energy density of the PDA-modified 10 vol% BZT@ 0.5 vol% MWCNTs/PB-1 composite film was 4.57 J·cm^-3, which was over 3.5 times that of PB-1 film (≈1.3 J·cm^-3 at 388 MV·m^-1).

Keywords: PDA-modified BZT@MWCNTs nanoparticles; dielectric performance; sol–gel hydrothermal method; synergistic effect.