Electrical properties of composites based on polystyrene with hybrid silicon dioxide particles

Composites based on polysterene and hybrid core-shell nanoparticles are studied; the nanoparticle core consists of silicon dioxide, and ethylphenylic groups (organic shell) are grafted to the core surface. It is shown that the permittivity, the volume resistivity, the thermostimulated depolarization current spectra, and the glass transition temperature of these materials depend on the nanofiller content and, what is more important, the nanofiller distribution over the polymer volume in the form of particles or their aggregates.