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Enhancement of electrical conductivity of electrospun polyacrylonitrile fibres using carbon nanomaterials synthesised from polypropylene waste

(Trans Tech Publications Ltd., 2020)
Yong Siong Koo
;
Zhun Yuan Soh
;
Norzilah Abdul Halif
;
Sharifah Shahnaz Syed Bakar
;
Mohd Arif Anuar Mohd Salleh
;
A.N. Edzatty
;
Roslan Nur Izzati

Incorporation of carbon nanomaterials (CNMs) into polymer such as Polyacrylonitrile (PAN) fibres allow electric current to pass through easily. Therefore in this study, bulk quantities of CNMs are synthesised using Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) method by manipulating the reaction time and catalyst ratio. Polypropylene wastes are used as the carbon precursor and ferrocene as metal catalyst in the CVD experiment. Addition of 1 wt% synthesised-CNMs into electrospun PAN fibres successfully increased the electrical conductivity by 50%. Addition of CNMs improved the crystallinity of electrospun-PAN/CNMs fibres as proven by XRD analysis. Electrospun PAN/CNMs-A fibres show larger diameter than the diameter of electrospun PAN/CNMs-B. Large bead formations contained densely-packed CNMs-A within the structure of electrospun PAN/CNMs-A fibres hindered their effectiveness to conduct the electricity. On the contrary, PAN/CNMs-B shows remarkable improvement in electrical conductivity when loosely-packed CNMs-B are added to the PAN fibres.

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