@article{Jiao2024, 
author = {Xinyu Jiao and Lele Xu and Xinyang Sun and Chao Shi and Peng-Xiang Hou and Chang Liu and Hui-Ming Cheng},
title = {Single-wall carbon nanotube fiber non-woven fabrics with a high electrothermal heating response},
year = {2024},
journal = {Nano Research},
volume = {17},
number = {6},
pages = {5621-5628},
keywords = {carbon nanotube fiber, nonwoven fabrics, fusing, electrothermal heating},
url = {https://www.sciopen.com/article/10.1007/s12274-023-6407-2},
doi = {10.1007/s12274-023-6407-2},
abstract = {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.}
}