Study of the effect of modification with small additives of phenylenediamines

The studies of the mechanical electrophysical properties of polymers and their modifications under the simultaneous influence of electrical discharges and mechanical force are presented. The paper presents the results of the experimental studies of the electrophysical and mechanical strength, the temperature dependence of the tangent of the dielectric loss angle, the specific volume electrical resistance and the relative deformation at break of new film polymer materials obtained on the basis of high-pressure polyethylene (LDPE) with a mixture of phenylenediamine additives OPD and PhI. The content of additives varied in the range of (0.03-0.5) wt%. The established increase in the electrophysical characteristics (increase in resistance to high electric field) of the LDPE film with the introduction of 0.1 wt% of chemical additives of PhI and with subsequent three-fold orientation extraction can be associated with a decrease in the concentration of charge carriers and their mobility, as well as an increase in the degree of crystallinity and packing density of polymer chains, which makes it difficult for ionization processes to occur at a given high electric field strength. It is shown that a decrease in the electrophysical characteristics of the studied polymer materials in the presence of tensile mechanical forces leads to the accumulation of bulk charges in them and the formation of submicrocracks.