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Large-scale preparation of high-performance boron nitride/aramid nanofiber dielectric composites

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Dielectric polymers featuring high thermal conductivity, excellent mechanical, and stable dielectric properties over a broad temperature range have attracted extensive scientific attention. In this work, a large-scale, layered film was fabricated using blade-coating approach, which integrated aramid nanofibers (ANFs) and boron nitride nanosheets (BNNSs) through a typical sol-gel transformation procedure. The as-prepared film with 20 wt.% BNNS displays high thermal conductivity (14.03 W·m−1·K−1), 103-fold higher than pure ANF film, attributing to massive continuous thermal conduction pathway between BNNSs so as to facilitate fast phonon transmission. The film boasts excellent mechanical properties (stress 97.14 ± 5.17 MPa, strain 19.36 ± 0.35%), high degradation temperature (∼ 542 °C), a moderate dielectric constant (∼ 6.9 at 104 Hz), together with low dielectric loss (∼ 0.026 at 104 Hz). Meanwhile, the film reveals high breakdown voltage (310 MV·m−1) and volume resistivity (1013 Ω·cm). Notably, these dielectric properties remain largely unchanged over a wide temperature range (25 to 200 °C).

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The authors acknowledge the financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 22075161).

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    Liying Su, Jiale Zhou, Fanglin Du & Chao Teng

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    Xiaoyan Ma

  3. Weihai Jin Hong Group Co., Ltd., Weihai, 264211, China

    Xiangchen Liu

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Su, L., Ma, X., Zhou, J. et al. Large-scale preparation of high-performance boron nitride/aramid nanofiber dielectric composites. Nano Res. 15, 8648–8655 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-022-4456-6

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