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FRONTIERS IN MATERIALS
卷 6, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fmats.2019.00060
关键词
carbon nanotubes; regenerated silk; phase transitions; electrical conductivity; polymer composites
资金
- European Commission [785219]
- FET Proactive Neurofibres grant [732344]
- Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR) under the Departments of Excellence grant [L.232/2016]
- University of Sussex strategic development fund
Regenerated silk (RS) is a natural polymer that results from the aggregation of liquid silk fibroin proteins. In this work, we observed that RS dispersed in aqueous solution undergoes a reversible solid/liquid transition by programmed heating/cooling cycles. Fourier transform infrared, atomic force microscopy imaging and Raman measurements of the RS reveal that the transition fromrandomcoil to beta-sheet structures is involved in this liquid-solid transition. The reversible solid-liquid transition of silk fibroin was then found to be helpful to prepare polymer-like carbon nanotube (CNT) dispersions. We demonstrate that the gelation of RS makes the CNTs with the consistency of a dough with polymeric behavior. Such RS can disperse carbon nanotubes at high concentrations of tens of weight percent. Finally, such carbon nanotube dough has been used for the realization of rubber composites. With this method, we pave the way for handling nanopowders (e.g. CNTs or graphene related materials) with safety and reducing the filler volatility that is critical in polymer-processing.
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