In this article, a hybrid filler based on polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane and silica, coded as POSS-SiO 2 , has been successfully synthesized. The structure of POSS-SiO 2 was studied by Fourier-transform infrared spectra, X-ray diffraction, and scanning electron microscopy. Then the POSS-SiO 2 was compounded with dicyclopentadiene bisphenol dicyanate ester (DCPDCE) resin to prepare composites. The effects of POSS-SiO 2 on the curing reaction, mechanical, thermal, dielectric and tribological properties of DCPDCE resin were investigated systematically. Results of differential scanning calorimetry show that the addition of POSS-SiO 2 can facilitate the curing reaction of DCPDCE and decrease the curing temperature of DCPDCE. Compared with pure DCPDCE resin, the impact and flexural strengths of the composites materials are improved markedly with up to 72 and 52% increasing magnitude, respectively. Meanwhile, the POSS-SiO 2 /DCPDCE systems exhibit lower dielectric constant and loss than pure DCPDCE resin over the testing frequency