• 文献标题:   Graphene/polyurethane composites: fabrication and evaluation of electrical conductivity, mechanical properties and cell viability
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   KAUR G, ADHIKARI R, CASS P, BOWN M, EVANS MDM, VASHI AV, GUNATILLAKE P
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  • 出版物名称:   RSC ADVANCES
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  • 通讯作者地址:   CSIRO Mfg
  • 被引频次:   22
  • DOI:   10.1039/c5ra20214k
  • 出版年:   2015

▎ 摘  要

Recently conducting and electroactive polymers have received the attention of researchers to explore their potential in biomedical applications. Polyurethanes (PUs) are of particular interest to make conductive polymer composites by the incorporation of conductive particles because of their inherent biocompatibility, biostability, excellent processability and good mechanical properties. In the present work, conductive composites of graphene and a siloxane polyurethane (Elast-Eon (TM)) were prepared. The graphene/Elast-Eon (TM) composites were prepared using different methods i.e. solution mixing, melt processing and in situ polymerisation in order to compare the effect of the processing method on the conductivity of resulting composites. The composites were prepared with varying content of graphene and the electrical conductivity of the resulting composites was determined using a two point probe method. In order to improve the conductivity, effect of cooling rate during compression moulding as well as annealing of composite films was examined. Both of these approaches were found to significantly improve the conductivity of composites with lower graphene content (