• 文献标题:   Fabrication of Transparent, Tough, and Conductive Shape-Memory Polyurethane Films by Incorporating a Small Amount of High-Quality Graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   JUNG YC, KIM JH, HAYASHI T, KIM YA, ENDO M, TERRONES M, DRESSELHAUS MS
  • 作者关键词:   graphene, mechanical propertie, polyurethane, shape memory, transparency
  • 出版物名称:   MACROMOLECULAR RAPID COMMUNICATIONS
  • ISSN:   1022-1336 EI 1521-3927
  • 通讯作者地址:   Shinshu Univ
  • 被引频次:   52
  • DOI:   10.1002/marc.201100674
  • 出版年:   2012

▎ 摘  要

We report a mechanically strong, electrically and thermally conductive, and optically transparent shape-memory polyurethane composite which was fabricated by introducing a small amount (0.1 wt%) of high-quality graphene as a filler. Geometrically large (similar to 4.6 mu m2), but highly crystallized few-layer graphenes, verified by Raman spectroscopy and transmission electron microscopy, were prepared by the sonication of expandable graphite in an organic solvent. Oxygen- containing functional groups at the edge plane of graphene were crucial for an effective stress transfer from the graphene to polyurethane. Homogeneously dispersed few-layered graphene enabled polyurethane to have a high shape recovery force of 1.8 MPa cm-3. Graphene, which is intrinsically stretchable up to 10%, will enable high-performance composites to be fabricated at relatively low cost and we thus envisage that such composites may replace carbon nanotubes for various applications in the near future.