Abstract
High loading of aligned graphene filler is effective for fabricating polymer nanocomposites with drastically improved properties, while practical preparation of such composites remains elusive. This paper reports on a method of preparing polyimide (PI, BPDA/PDA) nanocomposites containing highly loaded graphene fillers that are uniformly aligned parallel to the coating substrate in the PI matrix. The highly aligned graphene/PI film was achieved by infiltrating water-soluble poly(amic acid) ammonium salt (PAAS) into the scaffold of the graphene oxide liquid crystal. After thermal treatment, a freestanding reduced graphene oxide/polyimide (rGO/PI) film was prepared with the imidization of PAAS and reduction of graphene oxide. Owing to the excellent mechanical properties of the infiltrated PI, the hardness and modulus of the rGO/PI film were as high as 0.9 GPa and 9.3 GPa, respectively. In addition, the rGO/PI film was highly conductive, with an electrical conductivity of 446 S/m, because of the well-connected electrical pathways of the highly loaded and aligned graphene sheets.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 155-162 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Carbon |
| Volume | 169 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2020 Nov |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korea government ( MSIT ) ( NRF-2020R1C1C1003289 ), basic science research program through the National Research Foundation of Korea funded by the Ministry of Education ( NRF-2019R1A6A1A1105566012 ), KRICT core project ( SS2021-20 ) and the Center for Advanced Soft-Electronics funded by the Ministry of Science and ICT of South Korea as Global Frontier Project ( CASE-2015M3A6A5065315 ).
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All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Chemistry(all)
- Materials Science(all)