Reinforcing carbonized polyacrylonitrile fibers with nanoscale graphitic interface-layers

• 作者: Rahul Franklin Weiheng Xu Dhameedar Ravichandran Sayli Jambhulkar Yuxiang Zhu Kenan Song
• 来源期刊: 材料科学技术（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2021,（36）
• 页码范围: 78-87
• 页数: 10页
• 语种: 英文

摘要

Carbon fibers going through stabilization,carbonization,and graphitization heat-treatment stages will form continuous graphitic layers that are closely packed and preferentially aligned along the fiber axis,forming high mechanical stiffness or strength and electrical or thermal conductivity.The alignment of noncontinuous,powder-like graphene layers in polymers has been challenging due to the low bend-ing modulus of a few-or even single-layered graphene,which causes aggregations or folding behav-iors.This research demonstrates the leveraging of polymer-nanoparticle interactions to align graphene nanoplatelets (GNPs) in the polyacrylonitrile (PAN) matrix.An in-house designed spinning method pro-duces a three-layered fiber that utilizes the interracial interactions between each layer for graphene align-ment between graphitic layers.This composite containing oriented GNPs significantly improves modulus(i.e.,42.3 to 74.6 GPa) and increases electrical conductivity for enhancing volatile organic compounds(VOCs) sensing behaviors.This research opens up a new scalable fabrication method for multilayered composites.