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Application of a Coupling Agent to Improve the Dielectric Properties of Polymer-Based Nanocomposites
Published on: September 19, 2020
Electrically conductive polymer/rGO nanocomposite films at ambient temperature via miniemulsion polymerization using
Yasemin Fadil1, Vipul Agarwal, Florent Jasinski
1Centre for Advanced Macromolecular Design (CAMD), School of Chemical Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia. p.zetterlund@unsw.edu.au.
Abstract:
We have developed a facile and industrially scalable method to synthesize colloidally stable polymer nanoparticles decorated with graphene oxide (GO) sheets via miniemulsion polymerization, which in turn enables the preparation of electrically conductive films using a simple dropcasting method at ambient temperature. The resulting nanocomposite films exhibited high electrical conductivity with a wide range of potential applications as conductive coatings.
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