Tracking, diagnosing and impeding dielectric breakdown in polymers
The primary objective of this integrated research program is to understand how insulators behave when exposed to high electric fields, and to design materials that are tolerant to enormous electric fields for application in high voltage, high energy density capacitor technologies. We seek to achieve this objective through state-of-the-art “scale-bridging” computations, synthesis, processing, and electrical characterization, and through the creation of a relational database.
Our team performs:
- computational synthesis of amorphous polymers and prediction of
their dielectric properties - nonadiabatic quantum molecular dynamics simulations of
polymers under large electric field
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People
| Priya Vashishta | University of Southern California |
| Rampi Ramprasad (PI) | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Yang Cao | University of Connecticut |
| Gregory Sotzing | University of Connecticut |
| Mukerrem Cakmak | Purdue University |
| Mike Fayer | Stanford University |
Sponsored by the Office of Naval Research (ONR)
