Electroactive superelongation of carbon nanotube aggregates in liquid crystal medium

被引：72

作者：

Jeong, Seok Jin

Park, Kyung Ah

Jeong, Seok Ho

Jeong, Hee Jin

An, Kay Hyeok

Nah, Chang Woon

Pribat, Didier

Lee, Seung Hee ^{[1
]}

Lee, Young Hee

机构：

[1] Sungkyunkwan Univ, Sungkyunkwan Adv Inst Nanotechnol, Dept Phys, Ctr Nanotubes & Nanostruct Composites, Suwon 440746, South Korea

[2] Chonbuk Natl Univ, Sch Adv Mat Engn, Chonju 561756, Chonbuk, South Korea

[3] Ecole Polytech, LPICM, F-91128 Palaiseau, France

来源：

NANO LETTERS | 2007年 / 7卷 / 08期

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D O I：

10.1021/nl070116u

中图分类号：

O6 [化学];

学科分类号：

0703 ;

摘要：

We report an effect of superelongation of carbon nanotube (CNT) aggregates driven by the electric field in a liquid crystal (LC) medium. The CNT aggregates started to elongate above a certain threshold field and sustained the elongation up to nearly 400% in the linear region with a large electroactive constant of 70 (V/mu m)(-1). The original morphology of the CNT aggregates was restored upon removal of the field. The elongation was fully reversible below a certain breakdown field, irrespective of the nematic or isotropic phase of the LC medium. The overall process involved (i) the alignment of CNT aggregates to increase the dipole energy of aggregates in the presence of the bias voltage, (ii) stretching of the CNTs by sliding-out from the bundles, and (iii) the entropic elasticity that restores the randomly entangled CNT network of the original aggregates after suppression of the bias voltage.

引用

页码：2178 / 2182

页数：5

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