SNM: Scalable Nanomanufacturing of Carbon Nanotube Sheet Wrapped Carbon Fibers for Low Density and High Strength Composites

SNM：用于低密度和高强度复合材料的碳纳米管片包裹碳纤维的可扩展纳米制造

• 批准号: 1636306
• 负责人: Hongbing Lu
• 金额: $ 125万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at Dallas
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-01-01 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1636306&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SNM; Scalable; Nanomanufacturing; Carbon; Nanotube

Low-density, high strength composites play a critical role in a wide range of technological areas including aerospace, defense, sports, transportation, and renewable energy. One of the most important classes of low-density materials is polymer matrix composites, which are now used as primary structural materials for large airliners, and in other applications, such as wind turbines and ship structures. The use of nanostructured reinforcements in composites has been shown to improve strength, resulting in structural weight reduction, thereby leading to fuel savings and reduced ecological impact. There is an increasing interest and a strong need for nanomanufacturing technologies for making the nanostructured reinforcement materials and their composites that are scalable in throughput and quantity. Through this Scalable NanoManufacturing (SNM) award, an interdisciplinary research team will work with industry to develop a continuous nanomanufacturing process to fabricate light-weight, high-strength structural composites. Nanometer thick carbon nanotube fabric will be wrapped around individual fibers to create "fuzzy" carbon fibers to enhance their bonding strength with the surrounding polymer. The nanostructured composites will be tested to evaluate their performance under service environments. The use of the carbon nanotube fabric wrapped carbon fiber composites can potentially reduce the structural weight of aircraft, increase energy efficiency and reduce travel time. This project will make an important contribution to the continued success of the NanoExplorer program. A large number of high school and college students will be involved in all aspects of this multi-disciplinary project. Efforts will be made to recruit students from minority and under-represented groups. In this project, a continuous nanomanufacturing line will be designed, built and assembled to wrap individual fibers with carbon nanotube fabric, without degrading in-plane carbon fiber properties. The concept of "false twist" will be employed to scale-up the wrapping process and make it fully automatic. The individually wrapped "fuzzy" fibers will be subsequently consolidated to form a tow of fibers. The fiber tows will be impregnated in polymer to form prepregs, which will then be stacked and fully cured to prepare composite laminates. The laminates will be characterized for thermal stability and mechanical behavior. The nanomanufacturing process as well as the material preparation configurations will be investigated through computer simulations and models. The successful completion of the project will provide a unique scalable nanomanufacturing process to provide composites with significantly enhanced interfacial shear and compressive strength without degrading fiber tensile properties.

低密度、高强度复合材料在航空航天、国防、体育、交通和可再生能源等众多技术领域发挥着关键作用。最重要的一类低密度材料是聚合物基复合材料，它现在用作大型客机的主要结构材料，以及其他应用，例如风力涡轮机和船舶结构。事实证明，在复合材料中使用纳米结构增强材料可以提高强度，从而减轻结构重量，从而节省燃料并减少对生态的影响。人们对纳米制造技术越来越感兴趣，并且强烈需要用于制造在产量和数量上可扩展的纳米结构增强材料及其复合材料。通过这一可扩展纳米制造（SNM）奖项，跨学科研究团队将与业界合作开发连续纳米制造工艺，以制造轻质、高强度的结构复合材料。纳米厚的碳纳米管织物将包裹在单个纤维周围，形成“模糊”碳纤维，以增强其与周围聚合物的粘合强度。纳米结构复合材料将进行测试，以评估其在使用环境下的性能。使用碳纳米管织物包裹碳纤维复合材料可以潜在地减轻飞机的结构重量，提高能源效率并减少飞行时间。 该项目将为 NanoExplorer 计划的持续成功做出重要贡献。大量的高中生和大学生将参与到这个多学科项目的各个方面。将努力招收少数族裔和代表性不足群体的学生。在该项目中，将设计、建造和组装一条连续的纳米制造线，用碳纳米管织物包裹单个纤维，而不降低面内碳纤维的性能。 “假捻”的概念将用于扩大包装过程并使其完全自动化。 单独包裹的“模糊”纤维随后将被固结以形成纤维束。将纤维束浸渍在聚合物中形成预浸料，然后将其堆叠并完全固化以制备复合材料层压板。层压板的热稳定性和机械性能将得到表征。将通过计算机模拟和模型研究纳米制造过程以及材料制备配置。该项目的成功完成将提供独特的可扩展纳米制造工艺，使复合材料的界面剪切和压缩强度显着增强，而不会降低纤维的拉伸性能。

项目成果

Investigating the Geometry and Mechanical Properties of Human Round Window Membranes Using Micro-Fringe Projection

• DOI: 10.1097/mao.0000000000002911
• 发表时间: 2020-12
• 期刊: Otology & Neurotology
• 影响因子: 2.1
• 作者: Junfeng Liang;Don U. Nakmali;R. Gan;Hongbing Lu;C. Dai

Controllable Preparation of Ordered and Hierarchically Buckled Structures for Inflatable Tumor Ablation, Volumetric Strain Sensor, and Communication via Inflatable Antenna

用于充气肿瘤消融、体积应变传感器和通过充气天线通信的有序和分层屈曲结构的可控制备

• DOI: 10.1021/acsami.8b19241
• 发表时间: 2019
• 期刊: ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
• 影响因子: 9.5
• 作者: Wang Run;Liu Zhongsheng;Wan Guoyun;Jia Tianjiao;Zhang Chao;Wang Xuemin;Zhang Mei;Qian Dong;de Andrade Monica Jung;Jiang Nan;Yin Shougen;Zhang Rui;Feng Deqiang;Wang Weichao;Zhang Hui;Chen Hong;Wang Yinsong;Ovalle-Robles Raquel;Inoue Kanzan;Lu Hongbing;Fang
• 通讯作者: Fang

Enhancing the strength, toughness, and electrical conductivity of twist-spun carbon nanotube yarns by π bridging

• DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2019.05.023
• 发表时间: 2019-09-01
• 期刊: CARBON
• 影响因子: 10.9
• 作者: Liang, Xiumin;Gao, Yuan;Cheng, Qunfeng
• 通讯作者: Cheng, Qunfeng

Low-Cost, Ambient-Dried, Superhydrophobic, High Strength, Thermally Insulating, and Thermally Resilient Polybenzoxazine Aerogels

• DOI: 10.1021/acsapm.9b00408
• 发表时间: 2019-09-01
• 期刊: ACS APPLIED POLYMER MATERIALS
• 影响因子: 5
• 作者: Malakooti, Sadeq;Qin, Guoqiang;Lu, Hongbing
• 通讯作者: Lu, Hongbing

Super-tough MXene-functionalized graphene sheets

• DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-15991-6
• 发表时间: 2020-04
• 期刊: Nature Communications
• 影响因子: 16.6
• 作者: Tianzhu Zhou;Chao Wu;Yanlei Wang;A. Tomsia;Mingzhu Li;E. Saiz;S. Fang;R. Baughman;Lei Jiang-