Competing Effects of Radio Frequency Fields on Carbon Nanotube/Resin Systems: Alignment versus Heating

Abstract: This work shows that radio‐frequency (RF) fields can simultaneously align carbon nanotubes (CNTs) dispersed in a resin and induce Joule heating to cure the resin. The timescales of alignment and curing using RF heating are numerically computed and compared at different field strengths in order to determine a temperature where alignment happens before the matrix crosslinks. Composites are experimentally fabricated at the desired target temperature and are optically analyzed and quantified; the CNT network is successfully aligned in the direction of the applied electric field. This methodology can be used to create composites where the local alignment can be varied across the sample. Composites fabricated using RF fields have higher electrical conductivity in the direction of the aligned CNTs than an oven‐cured, randomly aligned sample. Also, RF‐cured nanocomposites exhibit higher tensile strength and modulus in the direction of alignment compared to an oven‐cured sample. Finally, it is further demonstrated how this methodology can be coupled with a direct ink writing additive manufacturing process to induce alignment in any desired direction, even orthogonal to the shear forces in the extrusion direction.

Standort
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Umfang
Online-Ressource
Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Competing Effects of Radio Frequency Fields on Carbon Nanotube/Resin Systems: Alignment versus Heating ; day:19 ; month:07 ; year:2023 ; extent:9
Macromolecular materials and engineering ; (19.07.2023) (gesamt 9)

Urheber
Sarmah, Anubhav
Mee, Raymond D.
Arole, Kailash
Chi, David
Harkin, Ethan M.
Dasari, Smita Shivraj
Wright, Aniela J. K.
Tran, Thang Q.
Rout, Ankush
Green, Micah J.

DOI
10.1002/mame.202300174
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2023072015230386573863
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14.08.2025, 10:52 MESZ

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Beteiligte

  • Sarmah, Anubhav
  • Mee, Raymond D.
  • Arole, Kailash
  • Chi, David
  • Harkin, Ethan M.
  • Dasari, Smita Shivraj
  • Wright, Aniela J. K.
  • Tran, Thang Q.
  • Rout, Ankush
  • Green, Micah J.

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