Origin of temperature dependent conductivity of $\alpha$-polyvinylidene fluoride

Abstract

The conductivity of $\alpha$-polyvinylidene fluoride ($\alpha$-PVDF) is obtained from dielectric measurements performed in the frequency domain at several temperatures. At temperatures above the glass-transition, the conductivity can be interpreted as an ionic conductivity, which confirms earlier results reported in the literature. Our investigation shows that the observed ionic conductivity is closely related to the amorphous phase of the polymer.

References in corpus (2)

• Distribution of relaxation times in $\alpha$-phase polyvinylidene fluoride
• Resolving distribution of relaxation times in Poly(propylene glycol) on the crossover region

Cited by in corpus (1)

• Comparison of methods for estimating continuous distributions of relaxation times