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Article Dans Une Revue ACS Macro Letters Année : 2021

Electrocaloric Enhancement Induced by Cocrystallization of Vinylidene Difluoride-Based Polymer Blends

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Active thermal control will be a major challenge of the twenty-first century, which has emphasized the need for the development of energy-efficient refrigeration techniques such as electrocaloric (EC) cooling. Highly polar semi-crystalline VDF-based polymers are promising organic EC materials, however, their cooling performance, which is highly structurally-dependent, needs further improvement to become competitive. Here, we report a simple method to increase the crystalline coherence of P(VDF-ter-TrFE-ter-CFE) ter-polymer in the plane including the polar direction. This is achieved by blending P(VDF-ter-TrFE-ter-CFE) with minute amounts of P(VDF-co-TrFE) co-polymer with similar VDF/TrFE unit content. This similarity allows for a cocrystallization of the co-polymer chains in the ter-polymer crystalline lamellae, preferentially extending the lateral coherence without lamellar thickening, as validated with a wide range of structural characterisation. This results in a significant dielectric and electrocaloric enhancement, with a remarkable electrocaloric effect, ΔTEC = 5.2 K, confirmed by direct measurements for a moderate electric field of 90 MV∙m-1 in a blend with 1 wt% of co-polymer.

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hal-03447249 , version 1 (24-11-2021)

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Florian Le Goupil, Francesco Coin, Naser Pouriamanesh, Guillaume Fleury, Georges Hadziioannou. Electrocaloric Enhancement Induced by Cocrystallization of Vinylidene Difluoride-Based Polymer Blends. ACS Macro Letters, 2021, pp.1555-1562. ⟨10.1021/acsmacrolett.1c00576⟩. ⟨hal-03447249⟩
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