Particulates—Friends or Foes?

This treatment of nanodielectrics seeks to examine the burgeoning development of the technology from the viewpoint of the incorporation of particulates into a host material. It is particularly aimed at current state-of-the-art techniques that can be utilized in industrial applications where scale-up is often necessary. Several different composite systems are used to illustrate the principles and techniques that are emerging to generate specific characteristics needed in insulating structures.