Composites prepared from the waterborne polyurethane cationomers-modified graphene. Part II. Electrical properties of the polyurethane films

Abstract

The research was planned to test electrical properties of polymer films made from polyurethane cationomers with 0–2 wt.% graphene admixture. The cationomers were synthetized in the reaction of 4,4′-methylenebis(phenyl isocyanate), polycaprolactone diol (M = 2000), N-methyldiethanolamine, and formic acid. It was found that addition of approx. 2 wt.% of graphene causes the loss of volume resistivity by three orders of magnitude and percolation threshold is already set at approx. 1 wt.%. The frequency characteristic of a real part of permittivity ε′ and imaginary part of permittivity ε″ were measured for the tested films. On the base of Havriliak–Negami equation, parameters of relaxation functions in frequency domain were estimated for samples containing various contents of graphene. The influence of the cationomer phase structure on observed changes of dielectric losses coefficient tgδ in the full-measuring frequency spectrum was discussed.