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Lyotropic Boron Nitride Nanotube Liquid Crystals: Preparation, Characterization, and Wet-Spinning for Fabrication of Composite Fiber

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ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
卷 15, 期 20, 页码 24681-24692

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AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.3c00189

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liquid crystal; nanotube; colloidal dispersion; microfiber; ceramic

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Microfiber fabrication via wet-spinning of lyotropic liquid crystals (LCs) with anisotropic nanomaterials is of great interest due to the excellent physical/chemical properties obtained from the alignment of anisotropic nanomaterials. However, achieving high colloidal stability of anisotropic nanomaterials in lyotropic LCs has been a challenge. In this study, a cationically charged polymeric stabilizer was proposed to effectively adsorb on the surface of boron nitride nanotubes (BNNTs), resulting in high colloidal stability of BNNTs up to 22 wt%. Optical and rheological analysis were used to optimize the phase behavior and rheological properties for wet-spinning of BNNT LCs.
Microfiber fabrication via wet-spinning of lyotropic liquid crystals (LCs) with anisotropic nanomaterials has gained increased attention due to the microfibers' excellent physical/chemical properties originating from the unidirectional alignment of anisotropic nanomaterials along the fiber axis with high packing density. For wet-spinning of the microfibers, however, preparing lyotropic LCs by achieving high colloidal stability of anisotropic nanomaterials, even at high concentrations, has been a critically unmet prerequisite, especially for recently emerging nanomaterials. Here, we propose a cationically charged polymeric stabilizer that can efficiently be adsorbed on the surface of boron nitride nanotubes (BNNTs), which provide steric hindrance in combination with Coulombic repulsion leading to high colloidal stability of BNNTs up to 22 wt %. The BNNT LCs prepared from the dispersions with various stabilizers were systematically compared using optical and rheological analysis to optimize the phase behavior and rheological properties for wet-spinning of the BNNT LCs. Systematic optical and mechanical characterizations of the BNNT microfibers with aligned BNNTs along the fiber axis revealed that properties of the microfibers, such as their tensile strength, packing density, and degree of BNNT alignment, were highly dependent on the quality of BNNT LCs directly related to the types of stabilizers.

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