• 文献标题:   Assembly of graphene oxide on nonconductive nonwovens by the synergistic effect of interception and electrophoresis
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   JIAO KY, ZHU T, LI XH, SHAN MJ, XU ZW, JIAO YN
  • 作者关键词:   graphene oxide nanosheet, nonconductive nonwoven, interception, electrophoresi, air filtration, conductivity, surface wettability
  • 出版物名称:   JOURNAL OF NANOPARTICLE RESEARCH
  • ISSN:   1388-0764 EI 1572-896X
  • 通讯作者地址:   Tianjin Polytech Univ
  • 被引频次:   5
  • DOI:   10.1007/s11051-015-3177-0
  • 出版年:   2015

▎ 摘  要

Electrophoretic deposition has always been an attractive method to deposit nanoparticles on conductive materials, while most fiber-based materials have poor conductivity which limits the application of electrophoretic deposition in assembling nanoparticles onto fiber-based materials. A new approach to assemble graphene oxide (GO) nanosheets on nonconductive nonwovens via the synergistic effect of electrophoresis and fiber interception was reported in this study. To improve surface wettability, polypropylene (PP) nonwovens were modified by acrylic acid and subsequent N-2 plasma treatment. Then GO nanosheets were anchored onto modified nonwovens by electrophoresis process and nonwoven interception. The results of scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) manifested that etching and grafting simultaneously occurred on the surface of modified PP nonwovens, resulting in a great improvement of nonwoven hydrophily, which corresponded to the results of water contact angle. Furthermore, the results of X-ray diffraction, energy dispersive X-ray, SEM, and FTIR indicated that different amounts of GO nanosheets were successfully assembled onto modified PP nonwovens. This method provides a new avenue for incorporating carbon nanoparticles with nonconductive fiber-based materials, and modified PP nonwovens assembled with GO nanosheets show good air filtration performance for sodium chloride aerosol with a filtration efficiency of 87.9 % and a pressure drop of 36.4 mmH(2)O, and the reduced GO/PP composite nonwovens exhibit enhanced conductivity.