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Symposium: S08 - Nanocarbon Based Composites, with CNPComp2017
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The Influence of Thermal Treatments on Dielectric Behaviors of Carbon Nanotubes-BaTiO3 Hybrids Reinforced Polyvinylidene Fluoride Composites

Fan Benhui (1), Bedoui Fahmi (2), He Delong (1), Bai Jinbo (1)*

(1) Ecole CentraleSupelec - Ile de France - France, (2) Université de Technologie de Compiègne - Compiègne - France

Incorporated carbon nanotube-BaTiO3 hybrids (H-CNT-BT) with core-shell structure, a good dispersion of CNTs can be achieved in a semi-crystalline polymeric matrix, polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF). Carried by BT particles, CNTs are easy to mutually connect which helps to obtain an extremely low percolation threshold (fc). After thermal treatments, the dielectric constants (ε’) of samples further increase which depends on the conditions of thermal treatments such as annealing temperatures, annealing durations and cooling ways. Thus, in order to study more comprehensively about the influence of thermal treatments on composite’s dielectric behaviors, in situ synchrotron X-ray is used to detect re-crystalline behavior of PVDF. Results of wide-angle X-ray diffraction (WAXD) and small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) show that after the thermal treatment, the content of β polymorph (the polymorph with the highest ε’ among all the polymorphs of PVDF’s crystalline structure) has increased nearly double times at the interfacial region of CNT-PVDF, and the thickness of amorphous layers (La) in PVDF’s long periods (Lp) has shrunk around 10 Å. The evolution of CNT’s network possibly occurs in the procedure of La shrinkage, where the strong interfacial polarization may be aroused and increases ε’ at low frequency. Moreover, an increase in the thickness of crystalline lamella may also arouse more orientational polarization and improve ε’ at high frequency.