Journal
CARBON
Volume 169, Issue -, Pages 155-162Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2020.07.051
Keywords
Graphene; Polyimide; Graphene-polymer composite; Liquid crystal; Coating
Funding
- National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) - Korea government (MSIT) [NRF-2020R1C1C1003289]
- basic science research program through the National Research Foundation of Korea - Ministry of Education [NRF-2019R1A6A1A1105566012]
- KRICT core project [SS2021-20]
- Center for Advanced Soft-Electronics - Ministry of Science and ICT of South Korea as Global Frontier Project [CASE-2015M3A6A5065315]
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High loading of aligned graphene filler is effective for fabricating polymer nanocomposites with drastically improved properties, while practical preparation of such composites remains elusive. This paper reports on a method of preparing polyimide (PI, BPDA/PDA) nanocomposites containing highly loaded graphene fillers that are uniformly aligned parallel to the coating substrate in the PI matrix. The highly aligned graphene/PI film was achieved by infiltrating water-soluble poly(amic acid) ammonium salt (PAAS) into the scaffold of the graphene oxide liquid crystal. After thermal treatment, a freestanding reduced graphene oxide/polyimide (rGO/PI) film was prepared with the imidization of PAAS and reduction of graphene oxide. Owing to the excellent mechanical properties of the infiltrated PI, the hardness and modulus of the rGO/PI film were as high as 0.9 GPa and 9.3 GPa, respectively. In addition, the rGO/PI film was highly conductive, with an electrical conductivity of 446 S/m, because of the well-connected electrical pathways of the highly loaded and aligned graphene sheets. (C) 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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