Flexible Polyimide Nanocomposites with dc Bias Induced Excellent Dielectric Tunability and Unique Nonpercolative Negative- k toward Intrinsic Metamaterials

ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
Chao ZhangRunhua Fan

Abstract

Intrinsic metamaterials with negative- k that originated from random-structured materials have drawn increasing attention. Currently, intrinsic negative- k was mainly achieved in percolative composites by tailoring the compositions and microstructures. Herein, plasmalike negative- k was successfully achieved in multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNT)/polyimide (PI) nanocomposites via applying external dc bias which exhibited excellent capability in conveniently and accurately adjusting negative- k. Mechanism analysis indicated that the localized charges at the interfaces between MWCNT and PI became delocalized after gaining energy from the dc bias, resulting in elevated concentration of delocalized charges, and hence the enhanced negative- k. Furthermore, it is surprising to observe that negative- k also appeared in multilayer nanocomposites consisting of alternating BaTiO3/PI and PI layers, in which there was no percolative conducting network. On the basis of systematic analysis, it is proposed that the unique nonpercolative negative- k resulted from the mutual competition between plasma oscillations of delocalized charges and polarizations of localized charges. Negative- k appeared once the polarizations were overwhelmed by plas...Continue Reading

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