Interface Modulation of Core-Shell Structured BaTiO₃@polyaniline for Novel Dielectric Materials from Its Nanocomposite with Polyarylene Ether Nitrile

Abstract

The core-shell structured polyaniline-functionalized-BaTiO3 (BT@PANI) nanoparticles with controllable shell layer thicknesses are developed via in-situ aniline polymerization technology and characterized in detail. The results prove that the PANI shell layer with the adjustable and controllable thicknesses of 3⁻10 nm are completely stabilized on the surface of the BaTiO3 core. In addition, the BT@PANI nanoparticles are regarded as the hybrid nanofillers to prepare PEN/BT@PANI nanocomposite films with a PEN matrix. The research results indicate that the surface functionalized nanoparticles facilitate the compatibility and dispersibility of them in the PEN matrix, which improves the properties of the PEN/BT@PANI nanocomposites. Specifically, the PEN/BT@PANI nanocomposites exhibit thermal stability, excellent permittivity-frequency, and dielectric properties-temperature stability. Most importantly, the energy density of nanocomposites is maintained at over 70% at 180 °C compared with that at 25 °C. All these results reveal that a new way to prepare the high-performance PEN-based nanocomposites is established to fabricate an energy storage component in a high temperature environment.

Keywords

• nanoparticles
• nanocomposites
• in-situ polymerization
• dielectric properties