Yutao Hao,Daomin Min,Ziwei Gao,Di Zhang,Jinghui Gao,Yongbin Liu
Electric vehicles and renewable energy consumption have huge demands for high-performance polymer dielectric capacitors. However, the resistivity and breakdown strength of existing polymer dielectrics deteriorate significantly at high temperatures, reducing the energy storage density and charge-discharge efficiency of capacitors below service requirements. The charge transport and molecular chain motion characteristics in linear polymers determine their conductivity, breakdown, and energy storage properties, but the quantitative relationship between them is not clear. An in-situ polymerization method was used to prepare polyimide/Al 2 O 3 nanocomposites (PI/Al 2 O 3 PNCs). Experimental results show that the resistivity, breakdown strength, energy storage density, and charge-discharge efficiency of PNCs increase initially and then decrease with increasing doping content, peaking at 3 wt%. The discharged energy density of PI/Al 2 O 3 -3 wt% PNCs at 180°C is 207.52 % higher than pure PI. A conductance-breakdown-energy storage co-simulation model based on charge transport and molecular chain displacement was used to simulate the voltage-current, breakdown, and energy storage characteristics of PNCs. The simulation results are consistent with the experiments. Comparative studies between simulation and experiments show that the independent interface zone between nanofillers and PI hinders charge transport and molecular chain movement, reducing electric field distortion and molecular chain spacing, thereby improving high-temperature breakdown and energy storage performance of PNCs.
Dynamic cross-linked polymers have garnered attention due to their recyclable nature. Research on constructing dynamic cross-linked polymers with various dynamic chemical bonds has achieved numerous outstanding outcomes. Nevertheless, studies on mechanisms such as polymer chains’ movement, energy transformation, and dissipation within the dynamic cross-linked network have been relatively scarce, which is the essential determinant for the ambient-temperature usage and high-temperature recycling characteristics of dynamic cross-linked polymers. This research uses the widely studied dynamic imine bonds as a representative to investigate dynamic cross-linked polymers. Through the utilization of rheological tests, the dynamic and static properties were tested and analyzed at the polymer chain level, explaining the mechanical property stability of dynamic cross-linked polymers during ambient-temperature service and the influence of dynamic performance on the energy dissipation mechanism, further clarifying the potential application mechanism in materials such as shock absorption. Simultaneously, it also demonstrated the polymer chain structure basis for their recycling.
Surface hydrophilicity and the inherent washing force are two crucial factors for constructing an underwater self-cleaning surface. Following this self-cleaning mechanism, we fabricated thermosensitive copolymer brushes of N-isopropylacrylamide (NIPAAm) and poly(ethylene glycol) methacrylate (PEGMA) on the polypropylene (PP) surface. Benefiting from the hydrophilic poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) side chains, the copolymer brushes with the PEGMA content exceeding 5 mol % exhibited good surface hydrophilicity, whenever at temperatures below or above the lower critical solution temperatures (LCST). Hence their underwater oleophobicity was greatly improved with oil contact angles higher than 141° and oil adhesive forces lower than 20 μN. In addition, the sharp volume-phase transition feature was reserved in their copolymer backbones, as proved by the AFM result. Self-cleaning evaluation of the modified surfaces was performed by a simple temperature-change water cleaning method, after which only 0.2 wt % of oil residues remained on the brush surface of P(NIPAAm-5PEGMA) (with 5 mol % of PEGMA contents). The excellent self-cleaning capability is believed to be ascribed to its balanced surface features in hydrophilicity and the sharper volume-phase transition, when a hydrophilic surface can facilitate oil desorption and an intense conformation change of chain stretching and shrinking can offer the strong washing force to assist oil detachment. This study contributes to development of the underwater self-cleaning surface based on a hydrophilic surface with the chain motion.
The phase structure and macromolecular chain motion of aromatic waterborne polyurethane film were examined by the fluorescence technique. Excimer emission of the phenyls appears at 436 and 468 nm and is temperature dependent, suggesting that the hard segments in the intermediate phase can be locally oriented. Binding energy of the excimer structure determined by the intrinsic fluorescence spectra is 16 kJ/mol. The intrinsic fluorescence technique can supply more information than the DSC method on segment relaxations, including α-relaxation for the hard or soft segments, β-relaxation of small molecular units, crystallization of the soft segments, γ-relaxation of the classical consecutive –CH2– units, and even phase separation degree.
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