Monolithic superaligned carbon nanotube composite with integrated rewriting, actuating and sensing multifunctions

Peidi Zhou; Wei Zhang; Luzhuo Chen; Jian Lin; Zhiling Luo; Changhong Liu; Kaili Jiang

doi:10.1007/s12274-021-3285-3

Nano Research 2021, 14(7): 2456-2462 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-021-3285-3

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Monolithic superaligned carbon nanotube composite with integrated rewriting, actuating and sensing multifunctions

Show Author's Information Hide Author's Information Peidi Zhou^{¹^,²^,^§}, Wei Zhang^{¹^,²^,^§}, Luzhuo Chen^{¹^,²}(

), Jian Lin^{¹^,²}, Zhiling Luo^{¹^,²}, Changhong Liu^³, Kaili Jiang^{³^,⁴}

1 Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Quantum Manipulation and New Energy Materials, College of Physics and Energy, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou 350117, China

2 Fujian Provincial Collaborative Innovation Center for Advanced High-Field Superconducting Materials and Engineering, Fuzhou 350117, China

3 Tsinghua-Foxconn Nanotechnology Research Center, Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

4 State Key Laboratory of Low-Dimensional Quantum Physics, Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

^§ Peidi Zhou and Wei Zhang contributed equally to this work.

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actuator, carbon nanotube, sensor, rewritable media, multifunctional

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Display devices Infrared devices Monolithic integrated circuits Wearable technology

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Zhou P, Zhang W, Chen L, et al. Monolithic superaligned carbon nanotube composite with integrated rewriting, actuating and sensing multifunctions. Nano Research, 2021, 14(7): 2456-2462. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-021-3285-3

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Multifunctionality has become a mainstream trend in the development of smart clothing and flexible wearable devices. Nevertheless, it remains a grand challenge to realize multiple functions, such as sensing, actuating and information displaying, in one single multifunctional material. Here, we present one multifunctional integration strategy by employing monolithic superaligned carbon nanotube (SACNT) composite, which can leverage three different functions through fascinating features of SACNT. Firstly, by using thermochromic dye as a color-memorizing component and SACNT as a photothermal converter, the composite film can be utilized as a flexible rewritable medium. It demonstrates excellent rewriting performances (reversibility > 500 times). Secondly, the composite can be tailored to fabricate an actuator, when its length direction is along the SACNT alignment. The actuator shows a bending-morphing when illuminated by near-infrared light. The morphing is attributed to a large difference in volume change between the SACNT and polymer when the SACNT absorbs the optical energy and heats the composite. Thirdly, owing to the unique anisotropy of SACNT, the composite is easily to be stretched in the direction perpendicular to the SACNT alignment, accompanied by a change in electrical resistance. Therefore, the composite is able to be used as a strain sensor. Finally, we fabricate two smart wearable devices to demonstrate the applications, which realize the functions of human-motion detection (sensing) and rewritable information display (rewriting) simultaneously. This multifunctional SACNT composite is expected to have potential applications in the next-generation wearable devices, smart clothing and so on.

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Monolithic superaligned carbon nanotube composite with integrated rewriting, actuating and sensing multifunctions

Show Author's information Hide Author's Information Peidi Zhou^{¹^,²^,^§}, Wei Zhang^{¹^,²^,^§}, Luzhuo Chen^{¹^,²}(

), Jian Lin^{¹^,²}, Zhiling Luo^{¹^,²}, Changhong Liu^³, Kaili Jiang^{³^,⁴}

1 Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Quantum Manipulation and New Energy Materials, College of Physics and Energy, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou 350117, China

2 Fujian Provincial Collaborative Innovation Center for Advanced High-Field Superconducting Materials and Engineering, Fuzhou 350117, China

3 Tsinghua-Foxconn Nanotechnology Research Center, Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

4 State Key Laboratory of Low-Dimensional Quantum Physics, Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

^§ Peidi Zhou and Wei Zhang contributed equally to this work.

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Keywords: actuator, carbon nanotube, sensor, rewritable media, multifunctional

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Received: 03 September 2020

Revised: 14 November 2020

Accepted: 07 December 2020

Published: 05 July 2021

Issue date: July 2021

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 51773039 and 11974076), Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province (Nos.2020J02036 and 2018J06001), Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University of Fujian Province (No. J1-1318), and Open Research Fund Program of the State Key Laboratory of Low-Dimensional Quantum Physics (No. KF201810).