Electrical, dielectric and surface wetting properties of multi-walled carbon nanotubes/nylon-6 nanocomposites

• 来源期刊: 中国物理B（英文版）
• 关键词: carbon nanotubes composites electrical conductivity dielectric property
• 年，卷（期）: 2009,（3）
• 页码范围: 1221-1226
• 页数: 6页
• 语种: 英文

摘要

This paper reports that the multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNT)/nylon-6 (PA6) nanocomposites with dif-ferent MWCNT loadings have been prepared by a simple melt-compounding method. The electrical, dielectric, and surface wetting properties of the CNT/PA6 composites have been studied. The temperature dependence of the con-ductivity of the CNT/PA6 composite with 10.0 wt% CNT loading (Ort ~ 10-4 S/cm) are measured, and afterwards a charge-energy-limited tunnelling model (In o(T) ~ T~1/2) is found. With increasing CNT weight percentage from 0.0 to 10.0 wt%, the dielectric constant of the CNT/PA6 composites enhances and the dielectric loss tangent increases two orders of magnitude. In addition, water contact angles of the CNT/PA6 composites increase and the composites with CNT loading larger than 2.0 wt% even become hydrophobic. The obtained results indicate that the electrical and surface properties of the composites have been significantly enhanced by the embedded carbon nanotubes.