Scientific Achievement
Researchers in the Inorganic/Organic Nanocomposites Program established new strategies to improve dielectric energy storage empowered by emerging insights in entropy-driven synthesis of multilaminate supramolecular nanocomposites.
Significance and Impact
This work highlights the central role of oriented nanoparticle-rich lamella in manipulating dielectric properties and electrostatic energy storage performance, offering a design concept for exploiting high-energy-density polymer nanocomposite films which allows to gain control over their multi-scale synthesis and understand how each factor contributes to overall performance.
Research Details
- Synthesized highly ordered lamellar organic–inorganic supramolecular nanocomposites showing as excellent dielectrics
- Film capacitors demonstrated superior energy storage properties
- Revealed charge transport and dielectric breakdown behaviors experimentally and computationally
Publication Details
H. Li, E. Vargo, Z. Xie, L. Ma, P.F. Pieters, S.W. Shelton, A.P. Alivisatos, T. Xu, Y. Liu, Advanced Materials. (2024).
Work was performed both in part at the Molecular Foundry and the Advanced Photon Source.
