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We report on scalable, time saving, and cost effective method to synthesize core–shell based nanodielectrics for energy storage applications. Nanodielectric films were fabricated by embedding highly ferroelectric β-phase polyvinilydine fluoride (PVDF) polymer with high electrical conductivity alumina coated aluminum nanoparticles. Al-Al2O3 core–shell nanoparticles were successfully synthesized through a simple, cost effective, and scalable blending procedure in PVDF to yield high performance energy storage capacitors. The results on electrical permittivity values, structural morphology and phases change with thermal annealing, thermal and frequency response of capacitance, dielectric strength, and dielectric loss of the produced films with different loadings of core–shell nanoparticles are presented. The dielectric permittivity K of the nanocomposite is found to increase from 12 for pure PVDF polymer to a value of 23.6 when PVDF was embedded with a 20% volume loading of Al-Al2O3 core–shell nanoparticles. Electrical characterization showed reproducible and stable capacitance values of 10–25 nF/in2 over frequencies of up to 10 MHz as well as an increase in capacitance with temperature below 70 °C, and a decrease thereafter. Breakdown voltage for the Al-Al2O3/PVDF composite films reached 70 V/µm at a loading of 10% and decreased to 63 V/µm for 20% loading films. Results show that proper loadings (10–20%) of engineered oxidized aluminum (Al-Al2O3) in PVDF provide high permittivity low loss nanodielectrics on par with commercially leading dielectrics manufacturer (3M C-Ply) along with the added structural flexibility and cost-saving to the end user.
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The authors would like to acknowledge financial support for this work, from the Deanship of Scientific research (DSR), University of Tabuk, Tabuk, Saudi Arabia, under Grant No. S-0214/1438.
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The manuscript was written through contributions of all authors. All authors have given approval to the final version of the manuscript. NB planned this study and carried out all electrical characterizations, data analysis, and plotting. RM prepared all figures. SK wrote the manuscript. ASR prepared the SEM samples and performed analysis. AI read and commented on the manuscript.
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Badi, N., Mekala, R., Khasim, S. et al. Enhanced dielectric performance in PVDF/Al-Al2O3 core–shell nanocomposites. J Mater Sci: Mater Electron 29, 10593–10599 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-018-9123-z
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