Enhanced mechanical properties of polyimide composite fibers containing amino functionalized carbon nanotubes

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• 作者：Jie Dong ; Yuting Fang ; Feng Gan ; Jinyin An ; Xin Zhao ; Qinghua Zhang ; ^{qhzhang@dhu.edu.cn" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author}
• 关键词：NH2-MWCNTs ; Polyimide composite fiber ; Interfacial interaction ; Hydrogen-bonding ; Aggregation structure
• 刊名：Composites Science and Technology
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：27 October 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：135
• 期：Complete
• 页码：137-145
• 全文大小：3139 K

文摘

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have been gained attention and interest to be as ideal reinforcement fillers due to their exceptional theoretical mechanical properties for a long time. To date, the reinforcing effect of the CNTs in most composite systems is still not satisfied. In the present study, by incorporating a novel NH₂-MWCNTs/NMP suspension into the polyimide matrix in situ polymerization, a series of PI/NH₂-MWCNTs composite fibers have been fabricated using wet-spinning technique. Detailed studies based on different spectroscopic characterizations suggested that there exist multiple interfacial interactions between NH₂-MWCNTs and polyimides (PIs) including the hydrogen bonding and π-π interaction. Wide-angle X-ray scattering measurements revealed the evolution of the aggregation structure of these composite fibers during heat-drawing process, and the results illustrated that the incorporated amino functionalized CNTs showed beneficial effects on the packing and orientation of PI molecular chains. Attributed to the above advantages, the resulting composite fiber containing 0.4 wt% NH₂-MWCNTs presented a tensile strength of 2.41 GPa (approximately a 47% increase over neat PI fiber), and the modulus of 99 GPa (27% raises compared with neat PI fiber). Meanwhile, dimensional stability of the PI fibers also has been improved by this effective approach.