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Effect of MWCNTs/ZnO inorganic fillers on the electrical, mechanical and thermal properties of SiR-based composites

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Rubber insulation materials were widely used in the fields of electrical and electronic engineering, especially, which have excellent nonlinear electrical conductivity and can be employed to homogenize the electric field distribution of cable accessories. To enable the rubber materials, such as silicon rubber (SiR), to possess excellent nonlinear electrical conductivity has been a hot issue. In this paper, MWCNTs/ZnO inorganic fillers were prepared by mixing a small amount of multi-wall carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) with zinc oxide (ZnO) nanosheets, and MWCNTs/ZnO/SiR composites were prepared. The macroscopical properties results show that the nonlinear electrical conductivity characteristics can be induced by filling appropriate content of MWCNTs/ZnO fillers, and the threshold field strength corresponding to the nonlinear conductivity gradually decreases with the increase of MWCNTs filling content, which further decreases with the increase of measured temperature. The COMSOL simulation results also verify that MWCNTs/ZnO/SiR composite with nonlinear conductivity can effectively reduce the electric field strength at the stress cone of cable accessories. In addition, the thermal conductivity and tensile strength for MWCNTs/ZnO/SiR composite are also improved comparing to pristine SiR. This work demonstrates MWCNTs/ZnO/SiR composites possess outstanding overall properties and have good potential to be used in the cable accessory.

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This work was supported by the Key project of Heilongjiang Province Natural Science Foundation (No. ZD2020E009) and Foundation of State Key Laboratory of Electronic Thin Films and Integrated Devices under Grant KFJJ201904.

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    Qingguo Chi, Zhaotong Meng, Tiandong Zhang, Changhai Zhang, Chao Tang & Qingquan Lei

  2. Key Laboratory of Engineering Dielectrics and Its Application, Ministry of Education, Harbin University of Science and Technology, Harbin, 150080, People’s Republic of China

    Qingguo Chi, Zhaotong Meng, Tiandong Zhang, Changhai Zhang, Chao Tang & Qingquan Lei

  3. State Key Laboratory of Electronic Thin Films and Integrated Devices, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, 611731, People’s Republic of China

    Changhai Zhang

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Chi, Q., Meng, Z., Zhang, T. et al. Effect of MWCNTs/ZnO inorganic fillers on the electrical, mechanical and thermal properties of SiR-based composites. J Mater Sci: Mater Electron 32, 27676–27687 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-021-07149-x

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