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碳纳米管和石墨烯纳米管上聚丙烯腈取向的成因及控制

Origin and Control of Polyacrylonitrile Alignments on Carbon Nanotube and Graphene Nanoribbon

Juho Lee, Ji Il Choi, Art E. Cho, Satish Kumar, Seung Soon Jang, Yong-Hoon Kim

摘要:

虽然碳纳米管(CNT)的最有前途的应用之一是提高聚合物的取向和结晶,以实现先进的碳纤维,这一目标的成功实现受到阻碍的聚合物-CNT界面的原子理解不足。本文中,我们从理论上研究聚丙烯腈(PAN)-碳纳米管杂化结构作为聚合物-碳纳米管复合材料的代表性例子。基于密度泛函理论的计算,我们首先发现PAN腈基的极性相对于CNT表面的相对取向是决定PAN-CNT界面能的关键因素,并且PAN的平躺构型比它们的直立构型更优选. CNT曲率被确定为另一个重要因素,在零曲率石墨烯极限中给出最大的结合能。电荷转移分析解释了PAN在CNT表面线性排列的独特趋势和有序PAN-PAN组装的可能性。接下来,进行大规模的分子动力学模拟,我们表明,即使对于相对较大的初始取向差,也可以实现所需的线性PAN-CNT对齐,并进一步证明石墨烯纳米带是一种有前途的碳纳米增强候选物。本研究中所积累的微观理解将为下一代碳纳米纤维的开发提供设计指南。

英文摘要:

While one of the most promising applications of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) is to enhance polymer orientation and crystallization to achieve advanced carbon fibers, the successful realization of this goal has been hindered by the insufficient atomistic understanding of polymer-CNT interfaces. We herein theoretically study polyacrylonitrile (PAN)-CNT hybrid structures as a representative example of polymer-CNT composites. Based on density-functional theory calculations, we first find that the relative orientation of polar PAN nitrile groups with respect to the CNT surface is the key factor that determines the PAN-CNT interface energetics and the lying-down PAN configurations are much more preferable than their standing-up counterparts. The CNT curvature is identified as another important factor, giving the largest binding energy in the zero-curvature graphene limit. Charge transfer analysis explains the unique tendency of linear PAN alignments on the CNT surface and the possibility of ordered PAN-PAN assembly. Next, performing large-scale molecular dynamics simulations, we show that the desirable linear PAN-CNT alignment can be achieved even for relatively large initial misorientations and further demonstrate that graphene nanoribbons are a promising carbon nano-reinforcement candidate. The microscopic understanding accumulated in this study will provide design guidelines for the development of next-generation carbon nanofibers.

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