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Electrical Properties. CeUular polymers have two important electrical appHcations (22). One takes advantage of the combination of inherent toughness and moisture resistance of polymers along with the decreased dielectric constant and dissipation factor of the foamed state to use ceUular polymers as electrical-wire insulation (97). The other combines the low dissipation factor and the rigidity of plastic foams in the constmction of radar domes. Polyurethane foams have been used as high voltage electrical insulation (213). 

Principles and Characteristics A substantial percentage of chemical analyses are based on electrochemistry, although this is less evident for polymer/additive analysis. In its application to analytical chemistry, electrochemistry involves the measurement of some electrical property in relation to the concentration of a particular chemical species. The electrical properties that are most commonly measured are potential or voltage, current, resistance or conductance charge or capacity, or combinations of these. Often, a material conversion is involved and therefore so are separation processes, which take place when electrons participate on the surface of electrodes, such as in polarography. Electrochemical analysis also comprises currentless methods, such as potentiometry, including the use of ion-selective electrodes. 

The electrical properties of materials are important for many of the higher technology applications. Measurements can be made using AC and/or DC. The electrical properties are dependent on voltage and frequency. Important electrical properties include dielectric loss, loss factor, dielectric constant, conductivity, relaxation time, induced dipole moment, electrical resistance, power loss, dissipation factor, and electrical breakdown. Electrical properties are related to polymer structure. Most organic polymers are nonconductors, but some are conductors. 

In addition to this major use to improve mechanical properties, high aspect ratio flake-type fillers have been added to polymers for a variety of other purposes. They include improved thermal stability (3), high voltage resistance (4), electrical conductivity, radiation shielding (5) and optical and aesthetic effects (6). 

Electrical properties such as conductivity, resistivity, I (current)-V (voltage) characteristics of vegetable oil-based polyurethane nanocomposites are sometimes influenced by nanocomposite formation with a suitable nanomaterial. BaTiOs superfine fibre-filled castor oil-modified polyure-thane/poly(methyl methacrylate) interpenetrating polymer network nanocomposites exhibit an increase in conductivity between insulator and semiconductor with an increase in nanofibre loading. ... 

The results shown graphically in Hgs. 19 and 20 are noteworthy. The conduction through voltages were 0.65 and 3.8 V, respectively, for Ag-PPCN and Ag-PTDCN. Before conduction though, the thin film was an insulator with a resistivity of about 10 ft m, and after conduction through the thin film had metallic conduction with a resistivity of only about 0.7 ft m. The resistance difference between the insulator state and the conductor state was up to about seven orders (10 ). Hence, the electrical bistability properties of these polymer thin films were quite evident, and the insulator phase and conductor phase could be defined as the O state and 1 state, respectively. Furthermore, this bistability property was stable... 

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