• 文献标题:   Electric Heating Behavior of Reduced Oxide Graphene/Carbon Nanotube/Natural Rubber Composites with Macro-Porous Structure and Segregated Filler Network
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   ZHAN YH, LI YC, MENG YY, XIE Q, LAVORGNA M
  • 作者关键词:   electric heater, reduced graphene oxide, carbon nanotube, segregated network, macroporous structure
  • 出版物名称:   POLYMERS
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  • 通讯作者地址:   Liaocheng Univ
  • 被引频次:   0
  • DOI:   10.3390/polym12102411
  • 出版年:   2020

▎ 摘  要

Conductive polymer composites with carbonaceous fillers are very attractive and play a significant role in the field of electric heaters owing to their lightweight, corrosion resistance, and easy processing as well as low manufacturing cost. In this study, lightweight reduced oxide graphene/carbon nanotube/natural rubber (rGO/CNT/NR) composites were fabricated by a facile and cost-effective approach, which consists of rGO assembling on rubber latex particles and hydrogels formation due to the interaction network established between carbonaceous fillers and subsequent mild-drying of the resulting hydrogels. Thanks to the amphiphilic nature of GO sheets, which can serve as a surfactant, the hydrophobic CNTs were easily dispersed into water under ultrasound. On the basis of both the high stable rGO and CNTs suspension and the assembling of rGO on rubber latex, a three-dimensional segregated network of CNT and rGO were easily constructed in macro-porous composites. Either the segregated network and macro-porous structure endowed the resulting composites with low density (0.45 g cm(-3)), high electrical conductivity (0.60 S m(-1)), and excellent electric heating behavior, when the weight content of rGO and CNTs are 0.5% and 2.5%, respectively. For electric heating behavior, the steady-state temperature of the above composites reaches 69.1 degrees C at an input voltage of 15 V.