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Single-wall carbon nanotube fiber non-woven fabrics with a high electrothermal heating response

Show Author's Information Jiao Xinyu1,2,  Xu Lele1,2,  Sun Xinyang1,2,  Shi Chao1,  Hou Peng-Xiang1,2( ),  Liu Chang1,2( ),  Cheng Hui-Ming1,3
Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016, China
School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering/Institute of Technology for Carbon Neutrality, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518055, China
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carbon nanotube fiber, nonwoven fabrics, fusing, electrothermal heating
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Xinyu J, Lele X, Xinyang S, et al. Single-wall carbon nanotube fiber non-woven fabrics with a high electrothermal heating response. Nano Research, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-023-6407-2
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Carbon nanotube (CNT) fibers have great promise for constructing multifunctional fabrics with high electrical conductivity, good electro-heating ability, excellent flexibility, and a low density. However, the inter-fiber contacts in the fabric greatly reduce these advantages and limit their application. Herein, a simple pressure-fusing method to fabricate single-wall CNT (SWCNT) fiber non-woven fabrics (NWFs) that are composed of interconnected SWCNT fibers with fused joints is reported, which have good flexibility, a low density of 0.46 g/cm3, a high electrical conductivity of 3.7 × 105 S/m, and a record high specific electrical conductivity of 803 (S·m2)/kg. They also showed excellent electrical heating ability, so that a temperature of ~ 160 °C was rapidly reached at a low voltage of 2 V. Combined with their low density, the SWCNT fiber NWFs are promising for use as a heating unit for low temperature battery protection and de-icing applications.


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Single-wall carbon nanotube fiber non-woven fabrics with a high electrothermal heating response

Show Author's information Jiao Xinyu1,2, Xu Lele1,2, Sun Xinyang1,2, Shi Chao1, Hou Peng-Xiang1,2( ), Liu Chang1,2( ), Cheng Hui-Ming1,3
Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016, China
School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering/Institute of Technology for Carbon Neutrality, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518055, China

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Carbon nanotube (CNT) fibers have great promise for constructing multifunctional fabrics with high electrical conductivity, good electro-heating ability, excellent flexibility, and a low density. However, the inter-fiber contacts in the fabric greatly reduce these advantages and limit their application. Herein, a simple pressure-fusing method to fabricate single-wall CNT (SWCNT) fiber non-woven fabrics (NWFs) that are composed of interconnected SWCNT fibers with fused joints is reported, which have good flexibility, a low density of 0.46 g/cm3, a high electrical conductivity of 3.7 × 105 S/m, and a record high specific electrical conductivity of 803 (S·m2)/kg. They also showed excellent electrical heating ability, so that a temperature of ~ 160 °C was rapidly reached at a low voltage of 2 V. Combined with their low density, the SWCNT fiber NWFs are promising for use as a heating unit for low temperature battery protection and de-icing applications.

Keywords: carbon nanotube fiber, nonwoven fabrics, fusing, electrothermal heating

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Received: 20 September 2023
Revised: 03 December 2023
Accepted: 10 December 2023
Published: 15 January 2024

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (No. 2022YFA1203302), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 52130209, 52188101, and 52072375), Liaoning Revitalization Talents Program (No. XLYC2002037), and Basic Research Project of Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province, China (No. ZR2019ZD49).

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