Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy by Costa, Carlos M.; Lanceros-Méndez, Senentxu;

Long description:

Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy: Fundamentals and Applications offers an in-depth exploration of the current landscape of BDS, emphasizing techniques, analytical tools, devices, and materials. This comprehensive guide provides a thorough theoretical background and foundational overview, explaining experimental tests, data analysis via various formalisms, and detailed methods alongside case studies. It intertwines theory with real-world applications in advanced materials, offering a critical and pedagogical overview for researchers and engineers in materials chemistry, analytical chemistry, materials science, physics, and physical chemistry.

The book delves into intersections between BDS and other analytical techniques across industries, showcasing its use in polymers, hybrid polymers, nanocomposites, ionic liquids, and active dielectrics. It covers fabrication, quality control, sensing, and monitoring processes, making it invaluable for understanding dielectric materials used in electronics and advanced applications. The text also includes detailed methods, protocols, and case studies, demonstrating BDS's efficacy in various industries such as polymers, composites, ceramics, electronic communications, and energy.

• Provides a strong theoretical background to the techniques of Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy (BDS), detailing the current landscape with a focus on materials, devices, techniques and analytical tools necessary for a critical overview of the field
• Emphasizes recent advances in BDS, with a specific focus on applications within advanced materials across industries for many innovative advances in technological applications
• Outlines detailed methods-based protocols and case studies for the applications of BDS focusing on materials processing, properties and molecular dynamics that will provide valuable insights across research fields and industries

Table of Contents:

Section I: Broadband dielectric spectroscopy-Fundamentals
1. Dielectric spectroscopy: History and perspectives
2. Broadband dielectric spectroscopy equipment
3. Theory of broadband dielectric spectroscopy with parameters and formalism
4. The impact of interfaces and interphases on dielectric properties of materials: Maxwell-Wagner-Sillars interfacial polarization versus electrode polarization
5. Correlation between broadband dielectric spectroscopy and other techniques: Revealing the physics behind relaxation and diffusion in complex materials


Section II: Broadband dielectric spectroscopy in the scope of different materials and systems
6. Ceramic materials
7. Active dielectrics (piezoelectrics, ferroelectrics, pyroelectrics)
8. Dielectric relaxation mechanism in glass forming poly(propylene) glycols family
9. Polymer confinement
10. Dielectric spectroscopy of ionic liquids
11. Bionanocomposites based on biodegradable polymers and bio-based nanofillers: Syntheses and dielectric properties
12. Applications of dielectric spectroscopy in electrorheological fluids
13. Broadband dielectric spectroscopy applied to investigate low-molecular-weight compounds confined to mesoporous silica matrices
14. Dielectric spectroscopy studies of polymer systems for pharmaceutical and technological applications
15. Polymer dispersed liquid crystals systems
16. Broadband dielectric spectroscopy of disordered ferroics
17. Dielectric properties of water-containing materials
18. Direct broadband dielectric spectroscopy of liquids
19. Liquid materials


Section III: Broadband dielectric spectroscopy in the context of different applications
20. Energy systems
21. Broadband dielectric spectroscopy for reliability assessment in integrated electronic devices
22. Broadband dielectric spectroscopy methods in microwave sensing applications
23. Broadband dielectric spectroscopy applied to the biomedical field
24. Biological tissues: Fundamental aspects and new perspectives
25. Agriculture/food field
26. Concluding remarks and outlook