Abnormal Dielectric Constant of Nanoconfined Water between Graphene Layers in the Presence of Salt

2021 ◽  
Vol 125 (6) ◽  
pp. 1604-1610
Author(s):  
Hossein Jalali ◽  
Erfan Lotfi ◽  
Radha Boya ◽  
Mehdi Neek-Amal
RSC Advances ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 5179-5181
Author(s):  
Sayantan Mondal ◽  
Biman Bagchi

Neglects of inherent anisotropy and distinct dielectric boundaries may lead to completely erroneous results. We demonstrate that such mistakes can give rise to gross underestimation of the static dielectric constant of cylindrically nanoconfined water.


2021 ◽  
pp. 096739112110239
Author(s):  
Yasin Altin ◽  
Omer Faruk Unsal ◽  
Ayse Celik Bedeloglu

In this study, graphene nanosheets (GNSs)/poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS) nanocomposites and the novel polyaniline (PANI)-functionalized graphene nanosheets (GNSs)/poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS) nanocomposites were fabricated successfully. GNSs and PANI-functionalized GNSs were dispersed in PDMS matrix at different nanofiller concentration and nanocomposites were prepared via solution casting method. PANI functionalization were performed by in-situ polymerization of aniline in the presence of GNSs and was used in order to be dispersed homogenously and efficiently in the PDMS matrix. Besides graphene layers were also isolated to hinder aggregation in the polymeric matrix. The effect of PANI functionalization of GNSs and filler concentration on dielectric, electrical and mechanical properties of nanocomposite films were investigated. According to dielectric measurements, the dielectric constant of polymer nanocomposites highly dependant on frequency, so dielectric constant was characterized in a wide frequency range (1 Hz–10 MHz) at room temperature, in this study. The dielectric constant of PDMS nanocomposites containing 1.50% GNSs and 1.50% PANI-GNSs increased by 111 times and 24 times, at 1 Hz, compared to pure PDMS, respectively. Besides, electrical conductivity increased 6868 and 1474 times with the addition of GNSs and PANI-GNSs, respectively. Optimized GNSs/PDMS and PANI-functionalized GNSs/PDMS nanocomposites can be candidate for soft actuators to be used in artificial muscle applications, in the future.


Author(s):  
E. L. Hall ◽  
A. Mogro-Campero ◽  
N. Lewis ◽  
L. G. Turner

There have been a large number of recent studies of the growth of Y-Ba-Cu-O thin films, and these studies have employed a variety of substrates and growth techniques. To date, the highest values of Tc and Jc have been found for films grown by sputtering or coevaporation on single-crystal SrTiO3 substrates, which produces a uniaxially-aligned film with the YBa2Cu3Ox c-axis normal to the film plane. Multilayer growth of films on the same substrate produces a triaxially-aligned film (regions of the film have their c-axis parallel to each of the three substrate <100> directions) with lower values of Jc. Growth of films on a variety of other polycrystalline or amorphous substrates produces randomly-oriented polycrystalline films with low Jc. Although single-crystal SrTiO3 thus produces the best results, this substrate material has a number of undesireable characteristics relative to electronic applications, including very high dielectric constant and a high loss tangent at microwave frequencies. Recently, Simon et al. have shown that LaAlO3 could be used as a substrate for YBaCuO film growth. This substrate is essentially a cubic perovskite with a lattice parameter of 0.3792nm (it has a slight rhombohedral distortion at room temperature) and this material exhibits much lower dielectric constant and microwave loss tangents than SrTiO3. It is also interesting from a film growth standpoint since it has a slightly smaller lattice parameter than YBa2Cu3Ox (a=0.382nm, b=c/3=0.389nm), while SrTiO3 is slightly larger (a=0.3905nm).


2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (32) ◽  
pp. 16661-16668
Author(s):  
Huayao Tu ◽  
Shouzhi Wang ◽  
Hehe Jiang ◽  
Zhenyan Liang ◽  
Dong Shi ◽  
...  

The carbon fiber/metal oxide/metal oxynitride layer sandwich structure is constructed in the electrode to form a mini-plate capacitor. High dielectric constant metal oxides act as dielectric to increase their capacitance.


Author(s):  
Peng Wang ◽  
Zhongbin Pan ◽  
Weilin Wang ◽  
Jianxu Hu ◽  
Jinjun Liu ◽  
...  

High-performance electrostatic capacitors are in urgent demand owing to the rapidly development of advanced power electronic applications. However, polymer-based composite films with both high breakdown strength (Eb) and dielectric constant...


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