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Record Id
52893
Title
Turbostratic graphite nanofibres from electrospun solutions of PAN in dimethylsulphoxide
Contributors
Z Kurban (UCL & STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab.)
,
A Lovell (STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab. & UCL)
,
DWK Jenkins (STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab.)
,
SM Bennington (STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab. & UCL)
,
IM Loader (STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab.)
,
A Schober (STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab.)
,
NT Skipper (UCL)
Abstract
Homogenous turbostratic graphite nanofibres (TGNFs) have been synthesized by heat treatment of electrospun polyacrylonitrile in dimethylsulphoxide, offering a solution route of low toxicity to manufacture sub-60 nm diameter TGNFs. Characterization techniques including X-ray diffraction, scanning- and transmission electron microscopy have been used to study the graphitization process, and structural morphology of the nanofibres. The TGNFs have an entangled micro-fibril structure with turbostratic ordering of up to 40 graphene layers after heat treatment at 3000 °C.
Organisation
ISIS
,
CMF
,
ISIS
,
EID
,
STFC
Keywords
Physics
,
Materials
,
Diffraction
,
Electrospinning
,
Nanofibre
,
Polyacrylonitrile
,
Carbonization
,
Graphitization
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English (EN)
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Year
Journal Article
Eur Polym J
46, no. 6 (2010): 1194-1202.
doi:10.1016/j.eurpolymj.2010.03.015
2010
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