Graphene and carbon nanofiber nanopaper for multifunction composite materials

Chunxia Wu; Haibao Lu; Liwu Liu; Yanju Liu; Jinsong Leng

doi:10.1117/12.880364

28 April 2011 Graphene and carbon nanofiber nanopaper for multifunction composite materials

Chunxia Wu, Haibao Lu, Liwu Liu, Yanju Liu, Jinsong Leng

Proceedings Volume 7978, Behavior and Mechanics of Multifunctional Materials and Composites 2011; 79780R (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.880364
Event: SPIE Smart Structures and Materials + Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring, 2011, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

The new structures and multifunctional materials is that it can achieve some other special functions while it has ability to carry, such as wave-transparent, absorbing, anti-lightning, anti-heat, anti-nuclear etc. It represents the direction of future development of structural materials. And graphene is the one of two-dimensional atomic crystal free substance only found in the existence and shows great importance for fundamental studies and technological applications due to its unique structure and a wide range of unusual properties. It exhibits great promise for potential applications in chemistry, materials, and many other technological fields. In this paper, we prepare nanopaper through physical vapor deposition (PVD) with a variety in the weight ratio between graphene and nanofiber. Then prepare composite materials with nanopaper and T300/AG80 prepreg by the meaning of autoclave molding. The morphology of nanopaper was characterized by transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and scanning electron microscope (SEM). And the electrical properties and the EMI shielding performances of these nanocomposites have been investigated experimentally by and four-point probe measurement and vector network analyzer. The experimental results indicate that the composites made from graphene and nanofiber nanopaper have highly electric capability, and the EMI shielding value of composites were all up to -15dB. In the same time the conductivity and the EMI shielding performances were improved with increasing the ratio of graphene in nanopaper. We tested the mechanical properties of composite materials at the same time. The average strength of composite materials is about 2000MPa, the elastic modulus is 130GPa above. We are sure that it can be used as the load-bearing structural material which has a multi-functional performance in the aviation field.

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Chunxia Wu, Haibao Lu, Liwu Liu, Yanju Liu, and Jinsong Leng "Graphene and carbon nanofiber nanopaper for multifunction composite materials", Proc. SPIE 7978, Behavior and Mechanics of Multifunctional Materials and Composites 2011, 79780R (28 April 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.880364

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