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ArticleNature communications2023

Unraveling bilayer interfacial features and their effects in polar polymer nanocomposites.

Xinhui Li, Shan He, Yanda Jiang, Jian Wang, Yi Yu, Xiaofei Liu, Feng Zhu, Yimei Xie, Youyong Li, Cheng Ma and 6 more

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Article in Nature communications, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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10 citing papers in PubMed, 87 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

16 authors at 5 institutions in 2 countries.

Xinhui LiState Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, Center of Smart Materials and Devices, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China.
Shan HeSchool of Materials Science and Engineering, State Key Lab of New Ceramics and Fine Processing, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Yanda JiangState Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, Center of Smart Materials and Devices, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China.
Jian WangState Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, Center of Smart Materials and Devices, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China.
Yi YuInstitute of Functional Nano and Soft Materials, Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon-Based Functional Materials & Devices, Soochow University, Suzhou, China.
Xiaofei LiuState Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, Center of Smart Materials and Devices, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China.
Feng ZhuDivision of Nanomaterials & Chemistry, Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, CAS Key Laboratory of Materials for Energy Conversion, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China.
Yimei XieState Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, Center of Smart Materials and Devices, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China.
Youyong LiInstitute of Functional Nano and Soft Materials, Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon-Based Functional Materials & Devices, Soochow University, Suzhou, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5248-2756
Cheng MaDivision of Nanomaterials & Chemistry, Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, CAS Key Laboratory of Materials for Energy Conversion, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9761-322X
Zhonghui ShenState Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, Center of Smart Materials and Devices, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7828-0397
Baowen LiState Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, Center of Smart Materials and Devices, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China.
Yang ShenSchool of Materials Science and Engineering, State Key Lab of New Ceramics and Fine Processing, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1421-0629
Xin ZhangState Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, Center of Smart Materials and Devices, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China. zhang-xin@whut.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4310-4187
Shujun ZhangInstitute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials, Australian Institute of Innovative Materials, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, Australia. shujun@uow.edu.au.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6139-6887
Ce-Wen NanSchool of Materials Science and Engineering, State Key Lab of New Ceramics and Fine Processing, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. cwnan@tsinghua.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3261-4053
Wuhan University of Technology · CNState Key Laboratory of New Ceramics and Fine ProcessingSoochow University · CNUniversity of Science and Technology of China · CNUniversity of Wollongong · AU

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 52388201
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Polymer nanocomposites with nanoparticles dispersed in polymer matrices have attracted extensive attention due to their significantly improved overall performance, in which the nanoparticle-polymer interface plays a key role. Understanding the structures and properties of the interfacial region, however, remains a major challenge for polymer nanocomposites. Here, we directly observe the presence of two interfacial polymer layers around a nanoparticle in polar polymers, i.e., an inner bound polar layer (~10 nm thick) with aligned dipoles and an outer polar layer (over 100 nm thick) with randomly orientated dipoles. Our results reveal that the impacts of the local nanoparticle surface potential and interparticle distance on molecular dipoles induce interfacial polymer layers with different polar molecular conformations from the bulk polymer. The bilayer interfacial features lead to an exceptional enhancement in polarity-related properties of polymer nanocomposites at ultralow nanoparticle loadings. By maximizing the contribution of inner bound polar layer via a nanolamination design, we achieve an ultrahigh dielectric energy storage density of 86 J/cm

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