High dielectric transparent polymer composite with well-organized carboxymethyl cellulose microfibers in silicon elastomer fabricated under direct current electric field.

Carbohydr Polym

Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Chemical Materials and Devices of Ministry of Education, Jianghan University, Wuhan 430056, China; Key Laboratory of Rubber-Plastics, Ministry of Education/Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Rubber-Plastics, Qingdao University of Science & Technology, Qingdao 266042, China. Electronic address:

Published: April 2024

The combination of transparency, high dielectric permittivity, biocompatibility and flexibility is highly desired in the embedded capacitors. Herein, we show that assembling biodegradable sodium carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) microfibers in biocompatible silicon elastomer (PDMS) under direct current (DC) electric field enables the production of high dielectric constant composite film with above desired properties. This process leads to the formation of columns of CMC microfibers spanning across the thickness direction, thus generating microfiber depleted regions in between fibers and polymer matrix. The as-prepared composite film with CMC (15 wt%) aligned exhibits a remarkable and an almost sevenfold higher dielectric permittivity as compared to that of the film with CMC randomly dispersed (72 vs 11.4, at 100 Hz). This high CMC loading does not compromise the flexibility and optical transmittance. Interestingly, the compression modulus along the thickness direction increases by >20 times from 16.4 MPa (CMC unaligned) to 339.9 MPa (CMC aligned). We demonstrate a facile strategy of fabricating high dielectric materials combining transparency, biocompatibility, flexibility and compression resistant, making the dielectric materials more versatile. This work shows that biomass derived CMC is a promising filler for high dielectric constant polymer composites benefiting from electric field driven construction of ordered micromorphology.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.carbpol.2024.121803DOI Listing

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