• 文献标题:   A facile method to fabricate polyurethane based graphene foams/ epoxy/carbon nanotubes composite for electro-active shape memory application
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   ZHOU J, LI H, LIU WW, DUGNANI R, TIAN R, XUE WC, CHEN YJ, GUO YP, DUAN HA, LIU HZ
  • 作者关键词:   smart material, graphene, polymermatrix composite, electrical propertie
  • 出版物名称:   COMPOSITES PART AAPPLIED SCIENCE MANUFACTURING
  • ISSN:   1359-835X EI 1878-5840
  • 通讯作者地址:   Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ
  • 被引频次:   14
  • DOI:   10.1016/j.compositesa.2016.10.021
  • 出版年:   2016

▎ 摘  要

Shape memory polymers (SMPs) have attracted the attention of both the industry and academia due to the fact that they can deform and fix into a temporary shape, and recover their permanent, original shape upon exposure to an external stimulus. In this work we propose a novel, shape memory threedimensional (3D) polyurethane-based (PU) graphene foam (PGF)/epoxy/carbon nanotubes (PGEC) composite. The composite uses epoxy resin (EP) as matrix, a low-density (about 0.030 g/cm3), highly porous, commercially available PU sponges as the scaffold, and graphene and carbon nanotubes (CNTs) as conductive network. The proposed PGEC composites demonstrate excellent conductivity and could be triggered within 150 s by applying an electric field of approximately 1.43 V mm(-1). The proposed SMP composite material is simple and fast to manufacture, operational, and low cost. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.