FEM modeling of conductivity and electrical coupling in polymeric nanocomposite material

Author

Massaro, Alessandro ; Spano, Fabrizio ; Athanassiou, Athanassia ; Cingolani, Roberto

Author_Institution

Center for Bio-Mol. Nanotechnol. (CBN), IIT, Arnesano, Italy

fYear

2011

Firstpage

85

Lastpage

86

Abstract

We propose an approach useful for the evaluation of electrical conductivity of nanocomposite materials. We consider the modeling of a polymeric matrix with gold nanoparticles by evaluating the electrical coupling of spherical gold nanoparticles embedded in chitosan polymer. The electrical coupling is generated by a voltage signal which provides a current distribution which is function of the gold nanonoparticles filling factor. We use a properly designed finite element method (FEM) tool.

Keywords

electrical conductivity; finite element analysis; gold; nanocomposites; nanophotonics; optical polymers; Au; FEM modeling; chitosan polymer matrix; current distribution; electrical conductivity; electrical coupling; filling factor; finite element method; polymeric nanocomposite material; spherical gold nanoparticles; Cancer; Filling; Finite element methods; Gold; Nanoparticles; Polymers; FEM Modeling; Gold Nanoparticles; Nanocomposite Materials; Polymers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Numerical Simulation of Optoelectronic Devices (NUSOD), 2011 11th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Rome

ISSN

2158-3234

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-876-1

Electronic_ISBN

2158-3234

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NUSOD.2011.6041151

Filename

6041151