A facile method to fabricate polyurethane based graphene foams/epoxy/carbon nanotubes composite for electro-active shape memory application

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• 作者：Jie Zhou^a ; ¹ ; Hua Li^a ; ^b ; ¹ ; ^{lih@sjtu.edu.cn" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Weiwei Liu^a ; Roberto Dugnani^c ; Ran Tian^a ; Wenchao Xue^a ; Yujie Chen^a ; ^{yujiechen@sjtu.edu.cn" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Yiping Guo^a ; Huanan Duan^a ; Hezhou Liu^a ; ^b
• 关键词：Smart materials ; Graphene ; Polymer-matrix composites ; Electrical properties
• 刊名：Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：December 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：91
• 期：part_P1
• 页码：292-300
• 全文大小：2753 K

文摘

Shape memory polymers (SMPs) have attracted the attention of both the industry and academia due to the fact that they can deform and fix into a temporary shape, and recover their permanent, original shape upon exposure to an external stimulus. In this work we propose a novel, shape memory three-dimensional (3D) polyurethane-based (PU) graphene foam (PGF)/epoxy/carbon nanotubes (PGEC) composite. The composite uses epoxy resin (EP) as matrix, a low-density (about 0.030 g/cm³), highly porous, commercially available PU sponges as the scaffold, and graphene and carbon nanotubes (CNTs) as conductive network. The proposed PGEC composites demonstrate excellent conductivity and could be triggered within 150 s by applying an electric field of approximately 1.43 V mm⁻¹. The proposed SMP composite material is simple and fast to manufacture, operational, and low cost.