Repurposing Poly(3-hexylthiophene) as a Conductivity-Reducing Additive for Polyethylene-Based High-Voltage Insulation

Amir Masoud Pourrahimi; Sarath Kumara; Fabrizio Palmieri; Liyang Yu; Anja Lund; Thomas Hammarström; Per Ola Hagstrand; Ivan G. Scheblykin; Davide Fabiani; Xiangdong Xu; Christian Müller

doi:10.1002/adma.202100714

Repurposing Poly(3-hexylthiophene) as a Conductivity-Reducing Additive for Polyethylene-Based High-Voltage Insulation

Amir Masoud Pourrahimi, Sarath Kumara, Fabrizio Palmieri, Liyang Yu, Anja Lund, Thomas Hammarström, Per Ola Hagstrand, Ivan G. Scheblykin, Davide Fabiani, Xiangdong Xu, Christian Müller

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Abstract

Poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) is found to be a highly effective conductivity-reducing additive for low-density polyethylene (LDPE), which introduces a new application area to the field of conjugated polymers. Additives that reduce the direct-current (DC) electrical conductivity of an insulation material at high electric fields have gained a lot of research interest because they may facilitate the design of more efficient high-voltage direct-current power cables. An ultralow concentration of regio-regular P3HT of 0.0005 wt% is found to reduce the DC conductivity of LDPE threefold, which translates into the highest efficiency reported for any conductivity-reducing additive to date. The here-established approach, i.e., the use of a conjugated polymer as a mere additive, may boost demand in absolute terms beyond the quantities needed for thin-film electronics, which would turn organic semiconductors from a niche product into commodity chemicals.

Original language	English
Article number	2100714
Journal	Advanced Materials
Volume	33
Issue number	27
Early online date	2021
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202100714
Publication status	Published - 2021

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The authors gratefully acknowledge the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (Grant Agreement No. FFL15‐0147), The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation through the project “Mastering Morphology for Solution‐borne Electronics” as well as Chalmers‘ Area of Advance Energy for funding.

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Atom and Molecular Physics and Optics
Materials Chemistry

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conjugated polymers
electrical conductivity reducing additives
high-voltage direct-current (HVDC) insulation
low-density polyethylene (LDPE)
poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT)

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