Advanced film capacitors require polymers with high thermal stability, high breakdown strength, and low loss for high temperature dielectric applications. To fulfill such requirements, two polymer multilayer film systems were coextruded via the forced assembly technique. High glass transition temperature (
Thermomechanical properties of polymers highly depend on their glass transition temperature (
- Award ID(s):
- 1757220
- NSF-PAR ID:
- 10459842
- Publisher / Repository:
- Wiley Blackwell (John Wiley & Sons)
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- Journal of Polymer Science Part B: Polymer Physics
- Volume:
- 57
- Issue:
- 23
- ISSN:
- 0887-6266
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- p. 1635-1644
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- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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