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ArticleAdvanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)2021

Repurposing Poly(3-hexylthiophene) as a Conductivity-Reducing Additive for Polyethylene-Based High-Voltage Insulation.

Amir Masoud Pourrahimi, Sarath Kumara, Fabrizio Palmieri, Liyang Yu, Anja Lund, Thomas Hammarström, Per-Ola Hagstrand, Ivan G Scheblykin, Davide Fabiani, Xiangdong Xu and 1 more

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Article in Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Coarse-Grained Model for Prediction of Hole Mobility in Polyethylene.Journal of chemical theory and computation · 2023
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5 · Who and what money

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11 authors.

Amir Masoud PourrahimiDepartment of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, 41296, Sweden.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5867-0531
Sarath KumaraDepartment of Electrical Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, 41296, Sweden.
Fabrizio PalmieriDepartment of Electrical, Electronic, and Information Engineering, University of Bologna, Bologna, 40136, Italy.
Liyang YuDepartment of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, 41296, Sweden.
Anja LundDepartment of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, 41296, Sweden.
Thomas HammarströmDepartment of Electrical Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, 41296, Sweden.
Per-Ola HagstrandInnovation & Technology, Borealis AB, Stenungsund, 44486, Sweden.
Ivan G ScheblykinChemical Physics and NanoLund, Lund University, PO Box 118, Lund, 22100, Sweden.
Davide FabianiDepartment of Electrical, Electronic, and Information Engineering, University of Bologna, Bologna, 40136, Italy.
Xiangdong XuDepartment of Electrical Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, 41296, Sweden.
Christian MüllerDepartment of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, 41296, Sweden.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7859-7909

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) is found to be a highly effective conductivity-reducing additive for low-density polyethylene (LDPE), which introduces a new application area to the field of conjugated polymers. Additives that reduce the direct-current (DC) electrical conductivity of an insulation material at high electric fields have gained a lot of research interest because they may facilitate the design of more efficient high-voltage direct-current power cables. An ultralow concentration of regio-regular P3HT of 0.0005 wt% is found to reduce the DC conductivity of LDPE threefold, which translates into the highest efficiency reported for any conductivity-reducing additive to date. The here-established approach, i.e., the use of a conjugated polymer as a mere additive, may boost demand in absolute terms beyond the quantities needed for thin-film electronics, which would turn organic semiconductors from a niche product into commodity chemicals.

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conjugated polymerselectrical conductivity reducing additiveshigh-voltage direct-current (HVDC) insulationlow-density polyethylene (LDPE)poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT)

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PMID34048610
PMCPMC11469319

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