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Exploring the Interfacial Phase and π–π Stacking in Aligned Carbon Nanotube/Polyimide Nanocomposites
To characterize the interfacial microstructure and interaction at a nanoscale has a significant meaning for the interface improvement of the nanocomposites. In this study, the interfacial microstructure and features of aligned multiwalled carbon nanotube (MWNT) and conjugated polymer polyimide (PI)...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7353158/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32545565 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nano10061158 |
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author | Jiang, Qian Zhang, Qian Wu, Xianyan Wu, Liwei Lin, Jia-Horng |
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description | To characterize the interfacial microstructure and interaction at a nanoscale has a significant meaning for the interface improvement of the nanocomposites. In this study, the interfacial microstructure and features of aligned multiwalled carbon nanotube (MWNT) and conjugated polymer polyimide (PI) with three molecular structures were investigated using small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS), wide-angle X-ray diffraction (WAXD), and fluorescence emission spectroscopy. It was found that aligned MWNT/PI nanocomposites had a nonideal two-phase system with the interfaces belonging to long period stacking ordered structure. Attributed to the π–π stacking effect, MWNT/BTDA-MPD presented the most regular arrangement verified by fractal dimension. By adopting a one-dimension correlation function, each phase dimension in aligned MWNT/PI nanocomposites was calculated and verified by high resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM) and X-ray diffraction (XRD). The π–π stacking was demonstrated to be an important interaction between MWNT and PI via WAXD and fluorescence emission spectroscopy, and it was influenced by the linkage bond between benzene rings in PIs. This work is of significance to reveal the interfacial features between conjugated polymer and carbon nanotubes (CNTs), which is favorable for the interface design of CNT-based high performance nanocomposites. |
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spelling | pubmed-73531582020-07-15 Exploring the Interfacial Phase and π–π Stacking in Aligned Carbon Nanotube/Polyimide Nanocomposites Jiang, Qian Zhang, Qian Wu, Xianyan Wu, Liwei Lin, Jia-Horng Nanomaterials (Basel) Article To characterize the interfacial microstructure and interaction at a nanoscale has a significant meaning for the interface improvement of the nanocomposites. In this study, the interfacial microstructure and features of aligned multiwalled carbon nanotube (MWNT) and conjugated polymer polyimide (PI) with three molecular structures were investigated using small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS), wide-angle X-ray diffraction (WAXD), and fluorescence emission spectroscopy. It was found that aligned MWNT/PI nanocomposites had a nonideal two-phase system with the interfaces belonging to long period stacking ordered structure. Attributed to the π–π stacking effect, MWNT/BTDA-MPD presented the most regular arrangement verified by fractal dimension. By adopting a one-dimension correlation function, each phase dimension in aligned MWNT/PI nanocomposites was calculated and verified by high resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM) and X-ray diffraction (XRD). The π–π stacking was demonstrated to be an important interaction between MWNT and PI via WAXD and fluorescence emission spectroscopy, and it was influenced by the linkage bond between benzene rings in PIs. This work is of significance to reveal the interfacial features between conjugated polymer and carbon nanotubes (CNTs), which is favorable for the interface design of CNT-based high performance nanocomposites. MDPI 2020-06-12 /pmc/articles/PMC7353158/ /pubmed/32545565 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nano10061158 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Jiang, Qian Zhang, Qian Wu, Xianyan Wu, Liwei Lin, Jia-Horng Exploring the Interfacial Phase and π–π Stacking in Aligned Carbon Nanotube/Polyimide Nanocomposites |
title | Exploring the Interfacial Phase and π–π Stacking in Aligned Carbon Nanotube/Polyimide Nanocomposites |
title_full | Exploring the Interfacial Phase and π–π Stacking in Aligned Carbon Nanotube/Polyimide Nanocomposites |
title_fullStr | Exploring the Interfacial Phase and π–π Stacking in Aligned Carbon Nanotube/Polyimide Nanocomposites |
title_full_unstemmed | Exploring the Interfacial Phase and π–π Stacking in Aligned Carbon Nanotube/Polyimide Nanocomposites |
title_short | Exploring the Interfacial Phase and π–π Stacking in Aligned Carbon Nanotube/Polyimide Nanocomposites |
title_sort | exploring the interfacial phase and π–π stacking in aligned carbon nanotube/polyimide nanocomposites |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7353158/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32545565 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nano10061158 |
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