PRL 106, 079701 (2011)

PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Comment on ‘‘Direct Measurement of the Percolation Probability in Carbon Nanofiber-Polyimide Nanocomposites’’ In their Letter, Trionfi et al. [1] claimed to derive percolation critical exponents for a carbon nanofiber-polyimide (PCNF) nanocomposite. They suggested there that the latter system ‘‘belongs to a different universality class than the 3D lattice percolation model.’’ In this Comment we intend to point out that their experimental results hardly support such an interpretation and that the tunneling-hopping-like approach can better account for their results. In Ref. [1] six points data fitting for the dependencies of the percolation cluster probability, 1 , and the conductivity, , on the volume content of the ‘‘conducting phase’’ ,p, were concluded to yield mean field, Bethe latticelike, exponents. This interpretation in terms of a percolation phase transition has two difficulties. First, the percolation thresholds, pc , of 0:002  0:002 and 0:001  0:001, may suggest that pc ¼ 0, and thus the whole premise of that argument and the meaning of the critical exponents is questionable [2]. Second, and more severe, the data were taken far away from the claimed pc [as far as ðp  pc Þ=pc ¼ 35 for ðpÞ and as far as ðp  pc Þ=pc ¼ 17 for 1 ðpÞ]. This is quite critical since it is well established that ‘‘when pl is appreciably larger than plc . . .  as well as P . . . increase roughly linearly with the concentration pl ’’ [3], where the quantities , P, and pl here are the lattice counterparts of , 1 , and p. In view of the above their  ¼ 1:1  0:3 value is more reliably accounted for by the above 1 / p (or P / pl [3]) expectation. Hence, the interpretation of such (far from the apparent pc ) data by critical exponents, such as  ¼ 0:4, or  ¼ 1, is not justified and the 1 / p dependence simply suggests that the data are associated with a homogeneous system. In an attempt to pursue their ‘‘percolation model’’ in terms of a Bethe lattice, the authors of Ref. [1] apply the well known plc ¼ 1=ðZ  1Þ relation where Z is the site coordination in the Bethe lattice [3]. However, in doing so they mix p1c (the critical occupation probability on a lattice) with the critical volume fraction pc which are two different quantities. In particular, the value of pl is not defined in the continuum, while in lattices, for a given pl , the value of p depends on the volume and shape of the individual impenetrable particle that is attached to a site [4]. Hence, the derivation of the Z ¼ 500 value by replacing pl by the measurable p in Ref. [1], is simply wrong. In view of the above let us suggest an alternative interpretation of the data of Ref. [1] by considering the ðpÞ dependence as shown there in Fig. 3 for PCNF and as given by the authors on a similar (FCNF) system in Ref. [5]. Following hopping [6,7] or other tunneling related

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mechanisms [8] one obtains that, depending on the shape and size of the particles,  ¼  expða =p Þ, where,  and a , are constants of the system. Indeed, by analyzing the ðpÞ data of Refs. [1,5] we found that the quality of the fits of the PCNF [1] and the FCNF [5] data to the latter dependence with  ¼ 1 and  ¼ 1=3, respectively, are at least as good as the fits to the ðpÞ / ðp  pc Þt percolation dependence proposed in Ref. [1]. In fact for such systems (depending on the density) the tunneling-hopping models can be shown to yield  values in the 1=3 to 1 range. Indeed, such equal quality fits have already been interpreted within the framework of a tunneling transport mechanism [8,9]. Note, however, that no critical region is involved in the tunneling-hopping interpretation of the conductivity and therefore the critical region restrictions do not apply. On the other hand, the corresponding models are consistent with random homogeneous systems [6]. In conclusion, considering that the data of Ref. [1] were obtained far away from the claimed pc (that can be taken as 0) and that 1 / p, the observations of Ref. [1] (in contrast with the unfounded claims there) can be self consistently interpreted as due to a dilute homogeneous system in which a hoppinglike transport takes place. I. Balberg,1 D. Azulay,1 O. Millo,1 G. Ambrosetti,2 and C. Grimaldi2 1

The Racah Institute of Physics The Hebrew University Jerusalem 91904, Israel 2 LPM Ecole Polytechnique Fe´de´rale de Lausanne Station 17, CH-1015, Lausanne, Switzerland Received 25 May 2010; published 15 February 2011 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.079701 PACS numbers: 72.80.Tm, 07.79.Lh, 81.05.Qk, 85.35.Kt [1] A Trionfi et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 116601 (2009). [2] The derivation of the error ranges in Ref. [1] is not clear, e.g., for 1 ðpÞ, pc has the value of 0:002  0:002 in the text and 0:002  0:001 in the caption of Fig. 3. [3] D. Stauffer and A. Aharony, Introduction to Percolation Theory (Taylor and Francis, London, 1992). [4] R. Zallen, The Physics of Amorphous Solids (John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1983). [5] M. J. Arlen et al., Macromolecules 41, 8053 (2008). [6] B. I. Shklovskii and A. L. Efros, Electronic Properties of Doped Semiconductors (Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1984). [7] T. Hu and B. I. Shklovskii, Phys. Rev. B 74, 054205 (2006). [8] M. T. Connor et al., Phys. Rev. B 57, 2286 (1998). [9] T. A. Ezquerra et al., Compos. Sci. Technol. 61, 903 (2001); B. E. Kilbride et al., J. Appl. Phys. 92 4024 (2002); S. Barrau et al., Macromolecules 36, 5187 (2003).

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