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RSC ADVANCES
Volume 8, Issue 30, Pages 16815-16823Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c8ra02567c
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- EU Graphene Flagship Program
- European Research Council Synergy Grant Hetero2D
- Royal Society
- Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC UK) [EP/N010345/1]
- US Army Research Office [W911NF-16-1-0279]
- Government of Bangladesh
- EPSRC [EP/N010345/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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Graphene-based de-icing composites are of great interest due to incredible thermal, electrical and mechanical properties of graphene. Moreover, current technologies possess a number of challenges such as expensive, high power consumption, limited life time and adding extra weight to the composites. Here, we report a scalable process of making highly conductive graphene-based glass fibre rovings for de-icing applications. We also use a scalable process of making graphene-based conductive ink by microfluidic exfoliation technique. The glass fibre roving is then coated with graphene-based conductive inks using a dip-dry-cure technique which could potentially be scaled up into an industrial manufacturing unit. The graphene-coated glass roving demonstrates lower electrical resistances (similar to 1.7 Omega cm(-1)) and can heat up rapidly to a required temperature. We integrate these graphene-coated glass rovings into a vacuum-infused epoxy-glass fabric composite and also demonstrate the potential use of as prepared graphene-based composites for de-icing applications.
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