ELECTROTHERMAL COATING WITH NANOSTRUCTURES MIXTURE AND METHOD FOR MAKING THE SAME

摘要

An electrothermal coating can include a nanostructure mixture randomly dispersed in a polymer matrix with more than one type of low-dimensional nanostructure. These types of low-dimensional nanostructures can include a combination of a nanospheroid plus one or both of a linear nanostructure and a planar nanostructure. Useful conductivity is achieved, while concentration of the mixed nanostructures is within the cured polymer composite coating being below the percolation limit of each individual carbon nanostructure type, alone, within an identical polymer matrix.

主权项

1. An electrothermal coating, comprising a nanostructure mixture randomly dispersed in a polymer matrix, wherein the nanostructure mixture comprises at least two low-dimensional nanostructures, and wherein a cured concentration of the nanostructure mixture is below a percolation limit of each of the at least two low-dimensional nanostructures within the polymer matrix.