Dielectric study of percolation in an oil–continuous microemulsion

Abstract

Measurements of the electrical conductivity and the complex permittivity near a percolation threshold in the ternary microemulsion system composed of water, iso-octane, and AOT are reported. It is shown that the electrical conductivity, which implies charge transfer process, is well described by a dynamic percolation model. The frequency dependence of the dielectric constant and the behavior of the relaxation frequency are also found to be in close agreement with the scaling power laws of the dynamic percolation model.