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JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY C
Volume 1, Issue 35, Pages 5463-5470Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c3tc30888j
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- Ministry of Knowledge Economy, Republic of Korea
- Korea Institute of Science and Technology
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We demonstrate that covalently functionalized multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNT) with a silicone copolymer via nitrene chemistry can be used as efficient conductive fillers for silicone dielectric elastomer actuators. The MWCNTs were covalently functionalized with poly(azidopropylmethyl)-co-(dimethylsiloxane) (silicone-N-3) bearing an azide group through a nitrene addition reaction. The incorporation of a small amount of the uniformly silicone grafted MWCNTs (silicone-g-MWCNTs) in silicone dielectric elastomer strongly enhanced the mechanical, dielectric, and electromechanical properties of the resulting nanocomposites. This reinforcing effect is attributed to the homogeneous dispersion of silicone-g-MWCNTs in the silicone elastomer matrix due to the large degree of compatibility between the matrix and the passivation layers of the functionalized MWCNT.
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