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High-Performance Bamboo Steel Derived from Natural Bamboo

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ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
卷 13, 期 1, 页码 1431-1440

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AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.0c18239

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bamboo; composite; strength; thermal conductivity; dimensional stability

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  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [11672049, 51803016, U1837204, 11872132]
  2. Chongqing Municipal Fundamental, and Frontier Research Program [cstc2018jcyjAX0343]

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The study introduces a simple and effective method to convert natural bamboo into bamboo steel, which has high specific tensile strength, superior mechanical properties, excellent thermal insulation capability, and high dimensional stability. This strategy using green and abundant natural bamboo as raw materials is highly attractive for the sustainable development of structural engineering materials.
It is highly desirable to develop green and renewable structural materials from biomaterials to replace synthetic materials involved from civil engineering to aerospace industries. Herein, we put forward a facile but effective top-down strategy to convert natural bamboo into bamboo steel. The fabrication process of bamboo steel involves the removal of lignin and hemicellulose, freeze-drying followed by epoxy infiltration, and densification combined with in situ solidification. The prepared bamboo steel is a super-strong composite material with a high specific tensile strength (302 MPa g(-1 )cm(3)), which is higher than that (227 MPa g(-1) cm(3)) of conventional high specific strength steel. The bamboo steel demonstrates a high tensile strength of 407.6 MPa, a record flexural strength of 513.8 MPa, and a high toughness of 14.08 MJ/m(3), which is improved by 360, 290, and 380% over those of natural bamboo, respectively. Particularly, the mechanical properties of the bamboo steel are the highest among the biofiber-reinforced polymer composites reported previously. The well-preserved bamboo scaffolds assure the integrity of bamboo fibers, while the densification under high pressure results in a high-fiber volume fraction with an improved hydrogen bonding among the adjacent bamboo fibers, and the epoxy resin impregnated enhances the stress transfer because of its chemical crosslinking with cellulose molecules. These endow the bamboo steel with superior mechanical performance. Furthermore, the bamboo steel demonstrates an excellent thermal insulating capability with a low thermal conductivity (about 0.29 W/mK). In addition, the bamboo steel shows a low coefficient of thermal expansion (about 6.3 x 10(-6) K-1) and a very high-dimensional stability to moisture attack. The strategy of fabricating high-performance bamboo steel with green and abundant natural bamboo as raw materials is highly attractive for the sustainable development of structural engineering materials.

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