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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 11, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-14618-0
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- N.W.O. VIDI grant [07560]
- U.S. National Science Foundation [DMR 1810194]
- National Institute of Health, National Institute of General Medical Sciences [P41 GM111244]
- Department of Energy Office of Biological and Environmental Research [KP1605010]
- NIH [S10 OD012331]
- DOE Office of Science [DE-SC0012704]
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Combining polymers with small amounts of stiff carbon-based nanofillers such as graphene or graphene oxide is expected to yield low-density nanocomposites with exceptional mechanical properties. However, such nanocomposites have remained elusive because of incompatibilities between fillers and polymers that are further compounded by processing difficulties. Here we report a water-based process to obtain highly reinforced nanocomposite films by simple mixing of two liquid crystalline solutions: a colloidal nematic phase comprised of graphene oxide platelets and a nematic phase formed by a rod-like high-performance aramid. Upon drying the resulting hybrid biaxial nematic phase, we obtain robust, structural nanocomposites reinforced with graphene oxide.
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