Issue 7, 2015

Electro-active elastomer composites based on doped titanium dioxide

Abstract

Recently, electro-active composites have been considered by several researchers because they exhibit an interesting change in their viscoelastic properties under an applied electric field. However, their relative elastic modulus change ΔG′ = G′(E) − G′(0) is still low and rarely exceeds 100 kPa. In this article, we demonstrated that, by synthesizing mesoporous aggregates of titanium dioxide (TiO2) and by adsorbing acetylacetone dipolar molecules (Acac) onto the TiO2 surface, the TiO2-Acac/PDMS electrorheological elastomer achieved a relative elastic modulus change ΔG′ higher than 500 kPa for an applied electric field of 2 kV mm−1. The dependence of the electrorheological response of TiO2-Acac/PDMS on the DC electric field strength, AC electric field frequency and shear strain magnitude was discussed regarding the conductivity ratio and permittivity ratio between doped TiO2 semiconducting particles and the PDMS matrix. The high electrorheological performance of TiO2-doped Acac as semiconducting particles filled in the elastomeric matrix makes this kind of material a promising candidate for application in the automotive industry, robotics, vibration isolators, building applications or electro-active actuators.

Graphical abstract: Electro-active elastomer composites based on doped titanium dioxide

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
06 Nov 2014
Accepted
13 Dec 2014
First published
17 Dec 2014

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2015,3, 1546-1556

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Electro-active elastomer composites based on doped titanium dioxide

A. Kossi, G. Bossis and J. Persello, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2015, 3, 1546 DOI: 10.1039/C4TC02535K

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