Use of Hansen solubility parameters to predict dispersion and strain transfer of functionalized single-walled carbon nanotubes in poly(vinylidene fluoride) composites

2012 ◽  
Vol 27 (6) ◽  
pp. 801-815 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing Ma ◽  
Raino Mikael Larsen
Author(s):  
Sujay Deshmukh ◽  
Zoubeida Ounaies

Efforts to enhance the electromechanical properties of Poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF) and its copolymers have been directed at optimizing the molecular chemistry, stretching and poling parameters. This study investigates an alternative approach to enhancing the properties via adding nanoinclusions in PVDF. We investigate the enhanced electrostrictive response in PVDF by adding Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes (SWNTs). We also show the change in the non-polar morphology of “as-is” PVDF to the polar γ phase by adding SWNTs and eventually to the piezoelectric β phase by stretching the nanocomposites.


RSC Advances ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (15) ◽  
pp. 8215-8221 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naohiro Terasawa ◽  
Kinji Asaka

This study describes new actuators with cellulose nanofibers, single-walled carbon nanotubes and ionic liquids (CNFs/SWCNTs/ILs) and examines the electrochemical and electromechanical properties of the CNF/SWCNT/IL gel hybrid actuators.


2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (8) ◽  
pp. 2261 ◽  
Author(s):  
Radovan Vukićević ◽  
Ivana Vukovic ◽  
Hristiyan Stoyanov ◽  
Andreas Korwitz ◽  
Doris Pospiech ◽  
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