Isothermal Dielectric Relaxations of Poly(vinylidene Fluoride) Filled with Silicon Carbide Nanoparticles

Abstract

The dielectric relaxation behavior of poly (vinylidene fluoride) based composites filled with beta silicon carbide nanoparticles were investigated over a wide frequency range and temperature intervals. The composites exhibited dielectric relaxations in the tested frequency range and the relaxations of composites can be well described via the modulus formalism of dielectric spectroscopy. Further, activation energy determined from the isothermal dielectric relaxations tended to decrease with increasing SiC indicating the promotion of SiC to the dipole relaxations of PVDF.