Nanotube fibers for electromechanical and shape memory actuators
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Carbon nanotubes are light, stiff and electroactive materials particularly promising in the field of actuating materials. Indeed, carbon nanotubes can expand and contract upon charge injection and be used for the development of electromechanical actuators. Carbon nanotubes can also be included in polymers to improve their properties and bring specific functionalities. When added to shape memory polymers, carbon nanotubes yield an improved stiffness and the possibility to heat the material through Joule’s heating. Nevertheless, spatial ordering of the nanotubes is a critical issue in all these classes of actively moving materials. It is shown in this article that assembling nanotubes under the form of pure or composite fibers is an effective approach to orient carbon nanotubes on a large scale along a well defined direction. Nanotube alignment achieved via fiber drawing allows the optimization of properties of shape memory polymer fibers and electrochemical actuators. In particular, the mechanical response of pure nanotube fibers to electrical stimulations is investigated in liquid electrolytes. It is observed that the fibers can generate a stress one order of magnitude greater than that achieved with unaligned assemblies of nanotubes. We also present the properties of shape memory polymer fibers loaded with carbon nanotubes. These fibers generate a very large stress when they recover their shape after they have been stretched and cooled under tensile load. Composite nanotube polymer fibers also exhibit a temperature memory behavior, which is still raising fundamental questions regarding its microscopic origin.
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Porous fibers remaining after thermal degradation of PVA/SWCNT composites comprised entangled CNTs held by van der Waals interactions and had better mechanical properties than random assemblies of nanotubes in bucky paper.
“The remaining porous fibers were comprised of entangled CNTs, held together by van der Waals interactions, and had much better mechanical properties than random assemblies of nanotubes in bucky paper.”
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PVA/SWCNT SMP composites manufactured by Viry et al. had maximum recovery stresses close to 150 MPa when deformed near Tg = 80 °C of neat PVA, fixed by cooling under fixed strain and reheated.
“The manufactured SMP composites revealed maximum recovery stresses close to 150 MPa when deformed at temperatures that were in the vicinity of T g = 80 °C of neat PVA, adjacently fixed through cooling under fixed strain and reheated.”
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- Authors
- Viry, L., Mercader, C., Miaudet, P., Zakri, C., Derré, A., Kuhn, A., Maugey, M., & Poulin, P.
- Affiliations
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- Université de Bordeaux (FR)
- Venue
- Journal of Materials Chemistry
- Publisher
- Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
- Published
- 2010
- Volume
- 20
- Issue
- 17
- Pages
- 3487
- ISSN
- 0959-9428 (ISSN-L)
- 1364-5501
- OpenAlex
- W2092903086
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- 70
- References
- 52
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- FWCI
- 4.34
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Materials Chemistry (publishedVersion)
- Research Online (University of Wollongong) (submittedVersion)
- HAL (submittedVersion)
- Oskar-Bordeaux (Universite de Bordeaux) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Dielectric materials and actuators
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Mechanical Engineering › Advanced Materials and Mechanics
- Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Materials Chemistry › Carbon Nanotubes in Composites
- Keywords
- carbon nanotubes, nanotube fibers, electromechanical actuators, shape memory polymers, Joule heating, nanotube alignment, fiber drawing, electrochemical actuation, temperature memory effect, shape recovery
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