Journal
SOFT MATERIALS
Volume 12, Issue -, Pages S115-S120Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/1539445X.2014.945128
Keywords
Chemical; Physical sensor; CNT probe; Cross-linking reaction; Crystallization; Glass transition temperature; Interphase
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- German Research Foundation (DFG) [SPP 1369]
- China Scholarship Council (CSC) [2007103430]
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Electrophoretic deposition (EPD) is used to deposit multiwalled carbon nanotube networks (CNTs) onto electrically insulating glass fiber surfaces. We found that the thin networks on a single glass fiber surface exhibit semiconducting properties. This enables us to realize a single CNT-glass fiber as a probe with novel multifunctional capabilities for in-situ monitoring of various chemical/physical transitions, particularly in the interphase region between polymer and glass fiber. Because of the intimate interaction between CNTs and polymers in the vicinity of a glass fiber, our CNT probe can rapidly sense the local changes of fundamental polymer properties, such as glass transition, reaction activation energy, cross-linking reaction, and crystallization.
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