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Weakly Radio-Frequency Negative Permittivity of Poly(vinylidene fluoride)/Ti3SiC2 MAX Phase Metacomposites

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While metal or carbon materials served as conductive phase in fabricating metamaterials or metacomposites have been widely investigated, MAX phases could provide alternative route. In this paper, Poly(vinylidene fluoride)/Ti3SiC2 MAX phase metacomposites with different Ti3SiC2 content were fabricated. Electrical and dielectric properties of metacomposites were analyzed. Percolating phenomenon was observed over the percolation threshold (fc). Below fc, ac conductivity spectra were explained by Jonscher’s power law, indicating hop** conduction behavior. Above fc, ac conductivity of composites follows Drude model, suggesting the metal-like conductive behavior. Weakly negative permittivity behavior was observed and explained by Lorentz and Drude model, suggesting the combinative contribution of induced electric dipole resonance and low-frequency plasmonic oscillation. The impedance performance of composites were also clarified by Nyquist plots and equivalent circuit analysis, manifesting the capacitive-inductive shift of composites. This work presented a novel route to metacomposites with weakly negative permittivity which greatly benefitted the practical applications of MAX phase in metacomposites.

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This study was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China [Grant Nos. 51771104 and 51402170].The author Yunpeng Qu thanks Murakami Haruki, Franz Kafka and Higashino Keigo whose novels comforted the author’s soul. The author Yunpeng Qu also thanks Prof. Shaohua Lin from Ocean University of China (OUC) whose replying letter encouraged Qu to work for the graduate degree.

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    Yao Liu, Yunpeng Qu, Guohua Fan & Peitao **e

  2. College of Ocean Science and Engineering, Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai, 201306, China

    Jiahao **n & Kai Sun

  3. School of Mines, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou, 221000, China

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Liu, Y., Qu, Y., **n, J. et al. Weakly Radio-Frequency Negative Permittivity of Poly(vinylidene fluoride)/Ti3SiC2 MAX Phase Metacomposites. J Inorg Organomet Polym 29, 248–257 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10904-018-0983-8

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