Affiliation:
1. State Key Laboratory of High‐Efficiency Utilization of Coal and Green Chemical Engineering School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Ningxia University Yinchuan 750021 China
2. Coal Chemical Industry Technology Research Institute of National Energy Group Ningxia Coal Industry Co., Ltd. Yinchuan 750021 China
Abstract
AbstractThis work describes an easy and effective process for preparing a homogeneous polybutadiene (PB) dielectric elastomer with improved actuated strain by utilizing a photochemical thiol‐ene click reaction. The carboxyl groups and various ester groups are used for grafting on the PB. Since the length of the alkyl chains of the ester groups will significantly influence the polarities of the carbonyl groups and hydrogen bonding effect, the influence of polarity and hydrogen bonding effect on the dielectric properties and mechanical properties of the modified polybutadienes is carefully discussed. Very interestingly, it is found that the increment of dielectric constant of PB modified by carboxyl groups is the lowest one compared to other modified PBs with the ester groups. Meanwhile, the modified PBs with the ester groups could achieve pretty low dielectric loss factor, and finally, a high dielectric constant (3.6), low dielectric loss factor (0.0005), and large actuated strain (≈25%) of the modified polybutadienes could be achieved by the modified PBs with butyl acrylate groups. This work provides a simple and effective method for the designing and synthesizing of a homogeneous high electromechanical performance dielectric elastomer with high dielectric constant and low dielectric loss.
Subject
Materials Chemistry,Polymers and Plastics,Organic Chemistry