scholarly journals Reply to the ‘Comment on “Investigation of dielectric constants of water in a nano-confined pore”’ by S. Mondal and B. Bagchi, RSC Adv., 2020, 10, DOI: 10.1039/D0RA02726J

RSC Advances ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 5753-5754
Author(s):  
Haochen Zhu ◽  
Han Hu ◽  
Bo Hu ◽  
Wenzhi He ◽  
Juwen Huang ◽  
...  

It is true that dielectric constant is a tensor and exhibits a strong dependence on the shape and the size of the enclosure in a confined phase. Thus, dielectric behavior of water become anisotropic in nature and exhibits a diverse range of anomalies.

1994 ◽  
Vol 370 ◽  
Author(s):  
R.A. Olson ◽  
G.M. Moss ◽  
B.J. Christensen ◽  
J.D. Shane ◽  
R.T. Coverdale ◽  
...  

AbstractThere has been much recent progress on the application of impedance spectroscopy (IS) to the study of microstructure and transport in cement-based materials. The IS spectrum allows for the precise determination of bulk resistance, which is a measure of the pore phase interconnectivity, and calculation of the relative dielectric constant, which is related to the capillary pore size and distribution. High values of the relative dielectric constant (σ105) observed in cement paste at early hydration times are the direct result of the microstructure inducing dielectric amplification. Solvent exchange and freezing experiments, combined with digital-image-based computer modeling, have confirmed the role of large capillary pores in the dielectric amplification in young pastes.The conductivities (σ) and relative dielectric constants (εr) of ordinary portland cement (OPC) pastes were monitored during cooling and solvent exchange with isopropanol and methanol. Dramatic decreases in σ and εr, in some cases over two orders of magnitude, occurred at the initial freezing point of the aqueous phase in the macropores and large capillary pores. The same dramatic decreases in a and er were observed at the onset of solvent exchange. Both effects provide experimental support for the dielectric amplification mechanism within the microstructure on the μm-scale. A secondary dielectric amplification was observed in the frozen and solvent exchanged pastes, which produced dielectric constants on the order of 103. This effect is attributed to amplification on the nm-scale within the layered calcium silicate hydrate (C-S-H) gel microstructure. Additional insight into the variable nature of the C-S-H microstructure was obtained by comparing the dielectric behavior of methanol-exchanged OPC pastes to isopropanolexchanged OPC pastes.


MRS Advances ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gio Ferro ◽  
Dithi Ganjam ◽  
Maia Gibson ◽  
Katie Partington ◽  
Akshay Trikha ◽  
...  

AbstractBarium titanate (BTO) is a ferroelectric perovskite material used in energy storage applications because of its high dielectric constant. A previous study showed that the dielectric constant for BTO nanoparticles drastically increases to over 15,000 at a particle size of 70 nm. This result is highly contested, but its implications to energy storage motivated our investigation into the dielectric constants of BTO nanoparticles that are incorporated into a polymer matrix. We developed a novel method of using image processing techniques on transmission electron microscope images of BTO-polymer nanocomposites. Data on the positions, shapes, sizes, and orientations of BTO nanoparticles were used to build more realistic computational models that simulate the dielectric behavior of the nanocomposites. Here, we investigate the relationship between regions of enhanced electric field and the composite dielectric constant.


1985 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 203-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Denoth

The dielectric constants of alpine snow samples with different stages of metamorphism and with different liquid water saturations have been measured in the frequency range of 10Hz to 50MHz using a plate condenser and network-analyzer. The limiting static dielectric constant, €s’, has been derived from the measured frequency dependence of the complex permittivity of snow by a least-square-fit using the model of Cole-Cole. A strong dependence of e on porosity, liquid water content and on the shape of the snow grains was found. Calculations of shape factors from the measured static permittivity based on the model of Polder and van Santen are given, and are compared to shape factors derived from an analysis of photographs of the snow samples.


1994 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 1932-1935 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sahana Chakraborty ◽  
A.K. Bera ◽  
S. Mollah ◽  
B.K. Chaudhuri

BaTiO3 doped 90V2O5−10Bi2O3 (VB) oxide glasses show a larger dielectric constant (102-104) compared to that of the base glass VB (∼102). The VB glass with 15 wt.% BaTiO3 shows the largest dielectric constant, and all the glasses show a Debye-type dielectric relaxation behavior. The increase in dielectric constant appears to be mainly due to the formation of microcrystalline clusters of BaTiO3 (1.8–8 μm, depending on the BaTiO3 concentration present in the base glass). Other than the dilution effect with BaTiO3, the glass-former oxide Bi2O3 also influences the dielectric behavior of BaTiO3 doped VB glasses.


1932 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 367-383
Author(s):  
Donald W. Kitchin

Abstract 1. Power factor and dielectric constant data have been given for vulcanized rubber samples tested over a wide range of composition, temperature, and frequency. 2. The real identity of the agents responsible for the peculiar dielectric behavior is not known. It seems probable that these agents are the rubber-sulfur molecules themselves. because the effects increase, under proper conditions, directly with per cent combined sulfur. 3. The effect of increasing sulfur content on the dielectric behavior is complex; it modifies not only these supposed agents themselves, but also the stiffness of their environment. Moreover, at a given sulfur content the agents are not identical but differ widely in relaxation time, and therefore in ability to respond; and with progressive addition of sulfur, the rubber does not increase continuously in stiffness, but, at a composition which depends on the temperature, passes rather abruptly from a soft to a hard state. 4. The temperature at which the transition from one state to the other occurs increases almost linearly with the sulfur content from −90° to +90° C. 5. In the soft state the behavior of vulcanized rubber with respect to compressibility, thermal expansion, dielectric constant, and power factor, and probably other properties, resembles that of a viscous liquid; in the hard state, that of a solid. 6. Rubber with less than 2 per cent combined sulfur shows low dielectric constant and power factor over the whole temperature and frequency range investigated; hard rubber, only at room temperature, where its rigidity restricts the response to the field. 7. Hard rubber, although not an electret, can hold an electric charge for 24 hours or more. The low dielectric constants of high-sulfur rubber samples found in measurements with a ballistic galvanometer were due to the disparity between its period of about one second and the long discharge periods of the samples. This led to the idea of dipole compensation shown to be incorrect by the high temperature results. 8. At temperatures sufficiently high to permit free response, the dielectric constant increases with sulfur content over the whole range. 9. If a dipole mechanism is involved, addition of sulfur to more than half the double bonds does not cause the dipole moment of the molecules to vanish owing to compensation. 10. The power factor of vulcanized rubber sheets decreases on stretch. 11. The data neither prove nor disprove a dipole mechanism. A critical experiment to settle this question is still wanting.


1985 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 203-206
Author(s):  
A. Denoth

The dielectric constants of alpine snow samples with different stages of metamorphism and with different liquid water saturations have been measured in the frequency range of 10Hz to 50MHz using a plate condenser and network-analyzer. The limiting static dielectric constant, €s’, has been derived from the measured frequency dependence of the complex permittivity of snow by a least-square-fit using the model of Cole-Cole. A strong dependence of e on porosity, liquid water content and on the shape of the snow grains was found. Calculations of shape factors from the measured static permittivity based on the model of Polder and van Santen are given, and are compared to shape factors derived from an analysis of photographs of the snow samples.


1993 ◽  
Vol 8 (7) ◽  
pp. 1736-1741 ◽  
Author(s):  
L.W. Hrubesh ◽  
L.E. Keene ◽  
V.R. Latorre

We have measured the real (dielectric constant) and imaginary (loss factor) components of the complex relative permittivity at 298 K using microwave frequencies (2, 10, and 18–40 GHz) for bulk SiO2-aerogels and for two types of organic aerogels, resorcinol-formaldehyde (RF) and melamine-formaldehyde (MF). Measured dielectric constants are found to vary linearly between values of 1.0 and 2.0 for aerogel densities from 10 to 500 kg/m3. For the same range of densities, the measured loss tangents vary linearly between values of 2 × 10−4 and 7 × 10−2. The observed linearity of the dielectric properties with density in aerogels at microwave frequencies shows that their dielectric behavior is more gas-like than solid-like. The dielectric properties of aerogels are shown to be significantly affected by the adsorbed water internal to the bulk material. For example, water accounts for 70% of the dielectric constant and 70% of the loss at microwave frequencies for silica aerogels. Because of their very high porosity, even with the water content, the aerogels are among the few materials exhibiting such low dielectric properties. Our measurements show that aerogels with greater than 99% porosity have dielectric constants less than 1.03; these are the lowest values ever reported for a bulk solid material.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johannes P. Dürholt ◽  
Babak Farhadi Jahromi ◽  
Rochus Schmid

Recently the possibility of using electric fields as a further stimulus to trigger structural changes in metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) has been investigated. In general, rotatable groups or other types of mechanical motion can be driven by electric fields. In this study we demonstrate how the electric response of MOFs can be tuned by adding rotatable dipolar linkers, generating a material that exhibits paralectric behavior in two dimensions and dielectric behavior in one dimension. The suitability of four different methods to compute the relative permittivity κ by means of molecular dynamics simulations was validated. The dependency of the permittivity on temperature T and dipole strength μ was determined. It was found that the herein investigated systems exhibit a high degree of tunability and substantially larger dielectric constants as expected for MOFs in general. The temperature dependency of κ obeys the Curie-Weiss law. In addition, the influence of dipolar linkers on the electric field induced breathing behavior was investigated. With increasing dipole moment, lower field strength are required to trigger the contraction. These investigations set the stage for an application of such systems as dielectric sensors, order-disorder ferroelectrics or any scenario where movable dipolar fragments respond to external electric fields.


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.


2015 ◽  
Vol 241 ◽  
pp. 226-236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neha Solanki ◽  
Rajshree B. Jotania

Influence of Ca substitution on structural, magnetic and dielectric properties of Ba3Co2-xCaxFe24O41(where x = 0.0, 0.2, 0.4, 0.6, 0.8 and 1.0), prepared by Sol-Gel auto-combustion method, has been investigated in present studies. The obtained powder was sintered at 950 oC for 4 hrs. in the static air atmosphere. Structural analysis of Ca-doped Ba3Co2-xCaxFe24O41powders revealed pure Z-type hexaferrite phase at low temperature. The frequency dependent dielectric constant (Єʹ) and magnetic properties such as remanent magnetization (Mr), saturation magnetization (Ms) and coercivity (Hc) were studied. It is observed that coercivity increased gradually with increase in calcium content. The real dielectric constant (Єʹ) and dielectric loss tangent (tan δ) were studied in the frequency range of 20Hz to 2MHz. The dielectric parameters for all samples show normal dielectric behavior as observed in hexaferrites. Contents of Paper


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