Nature Communications (Nov 2022)

Explosive percolation yields highly-conductive polymer nanocomposites

  • Manuela Meloni,
  • Matthew J. Large,
  • José Miguel González Domínguez,
  • Sandra Victor-Román,
  • Giuseppe Fratta,
  • Emin Istif,
  • Oliver Tomes,
  • Jonathan P. Salvage,
  • Christopher P. Ewels,
  • Mario Pelaez-Fernandez,
  • Raul Arenal,
  • Ana Benito,
  • Wolfgang K. Maser,
  • Alice A. K. King,
  • Pulickel M. Ajayan,
  • Sean P. Ogilvie,
  • Alan B. Dalton

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34631-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Materials with correlated localisation of percolating particles and emergent conductive paths can realise sharp transitions and high conductivities characteristic of the explosively-grown network. Here the authors exploit explosive percolation to realize a low-loading composite material with enhanced electrical properties by in-situ reduction of graphene oxide.