Improved Insulation Properties of Polypropylene With Highly Orientated Lamellar Induced by NonIsothermal Shear Stress

Abstract

Polypropylene plays an irreplaceable role in electrical insulation and electrostatic capacitors and has been extensively studied with its microstructure and insulation properties optimised for high-power density miniaturised devices. The extrinsic modifiers or industrial upgrading have not yet achieved a remarkable breakthrough in either concise theory or comprehensive performance. Here, we develop a nonisothermal shear process on melt to regulate the nucleation density and the lamellar orientation along the surface and reveal pore defects in disorder boundaries between spherulites as the microscopic nature of the property bottleneck. The high-rated shear process induces a crystallographic surface texture of (1 1 0) planes from which the elimination of micro-defect benefits. Our high-rated shear strategy achieves an excellent dielectric strength of 573.7 MV/m with an increase of 33% and an improved insulation resistance by 130% at 100 MV/m with the minimised absorption of injected current.