Effect of the carbon nanotube surface characteristics on the conductivity and dielectric constant of carbon nanotube/poly(vinylidene fluoride) composites

Authors

S A. Carabineiro, Universidade Do Porto
Manuel F. Pereira, Universidade Do Porto
J Nunes-Pereira, University of Minho
Cristina Caparrós, University of Minho
Vitor Sencadas, University of WollongongFollow
Senentxu Lanceros-Méndez, University of Minho

RIS ID

99294

Publication Details

Carabineiro, S. A., Pereira, M. F., Pereira, J. N., Caparrós, C., Sencadas, V. & Lanceros-Méndez, S. (2011). Effect of the carbon nanotube surface characteristics on the conductivity and dielectric constant of carbon nanotube/poly(vinylidene fluoride) composites. Nanoscale Research Letters, 6 (1), 1-5.

Abstract

Commercial multi-walled carbon nanotubes (CNT) were functionalized by oxidation with HNO3, to introduce oxygen-containing surface groups, and by thermal treatments at different temperatures for their selective removal. The obtained samples were characterized by adsorption of N2 at -196°C, temperature-programmed desorption and determination of pH at the point of zero charge. CNT/poly(vinylidene fluoride) composites were prepared using the above CNT samples, with different filler fractions up to 1 wt%. It was found that oxidation reduced composite conductivity for a given concentration, shifted the percolation threshold to higher concentrations, and had no significant effect in the dielectric response.