Abstract
AbstractIncorporation of graphene‐based fillers such as graphene oxide (GO) and reduced graphene oxide (rGO) into polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) followed by uniaxial stretching can significantly improve their electroactive phase content as well as the dielectric properties. In this study, the nonisothermal crystallization kinetics of unstretched and uniaxially stretched PVDF‐GO and PVDF‐rGO composite films are investigated through differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) at different cooling rates. Avrami‐modified Jeziorney's model is used to understand their crystallization behavior which leads to the nucleation of electroactive crystalline phases in PVDF. Avrami's exponent “n” values in the range of 2–4 are obtained for nonisothermal crystallization of PVDF in different samples which reveal both two‐ and three‐dimensional growth of spherulites in the crystalline region. Kissinger's method is used to calculate the activation energy of crystallization and the results reveal accelerated crystallization of PVDF after addition of GO and rGO fillers followed by uniaxial stretching.
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