Sundaray Bibekananda, Subramanian V, Natarajan T S
Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India.
J Nanosci Nanotechnol. 2007 Jun;7(6):1793-5. doi: 10.1166/jnn.2007.717.
Electrospinning is a simple technique to prepare polymer fibers in nanometer diameters using very high electrostatic fields. These nanofibers are useful in many applications since the surface area to volume ratio in these fibers is very high. Here we have prepared nanofibers of composites of Polystyrene (PS) with different concentrations (0.05% to 2% w/w) of multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNT) by electrospinning. The fibers are characterized by SEM, TEM, Raman spectra, and TGA. The room temperature electrical conductivity of single fibers of these composites are measured and found to show dramatic improvement in the conductivity due to the addition of MWCNT to the polymer matrix compared to the pure PS.
静电纺丝是一种利用非常高的静电场制备纳米级直径聚合物纤维的简单技术。这些纳米纤维在许多应用中都很有用,因为这些纤维的表面积与体积之比非常高。在这里,我们通过静电纺丝制备了含有不同浓度(0.05%至2%重量/重量)多壁碳纳米管(MWCNT)的聚苯乙烯(PS)复合材料纳米纤维。通过扫描电子显微镜(SEM)、透射电子显微镜(TEM)、拉曼光谱和热重分析(TGA)对纤维进行了表征。测量了这些复合材料单根纤维的室温电导率,发现与纯PS相比,由于在聚合物基体中添加了MWCNT,其电导率有显著提高。