Synergistic Enhancement of High-Temperature Properties for Capacitor Film by Cyclic Olefin Copolymer and Polypropylene

As the working dielectrics of film capacitors, polypropylene (PP) has been widely used in renewable energy power generation, high-voltage power transmission, electric vehicles and other related applications. However, degraded dielectric performance under thermal stress critically compromises capacitor reliability. Herein, cyclic olefin copolymer (COC), which has high glass transition temperature (T_g) is blended with PP, introducing saturated rigid bicyclic structures to impede the mobility of molecular chains at high temperatures. Consequently, it synergistically enhances the high-temperature dielectric properties of P P. The results show that the introduction of COC decreases the crystallinity of the blend, leading to the diminishing of DC breakdown strength at 25 ° C. However, when the blending mass fraction of COC is 1 0%, the DC breakdown strength reaches 239.88 kV mm at 150 ° C, exceeding pure PP by 3.11 %, indicating that COC's efficacy in enhancing high-temperature dielectric behavior. Collectively, this paper proposes a novel design paradigm for capacitorgrade high-temperature dielectrics.