MXene Enhanced the Electromechanical Performance of a Nafion-Based Actuator

Xiaoming Tang; Ziyi Zhou; Yuehang Jiang; Qian Wang; Qi Sun; Lei Zu; Xing Gao; Huiqin Lian; Minhua Cao; Xiuguo Cui

doi:10.3390/ma15082833

MXene Enhanced the Electromechanical Performance of a Nafion-Based Actuator

Materials (Basel). 2022 Apr 12;15(8):2833. doi: 10.3390/ma15082833.

Authors

Xiaoming Tang¹, Ziyi Zhou¹, Yuehang Jiang¹, Qian Wang¹, Qi Sun¹, Lei Zu¹, Xing Gao^{1

2}, Huiqin Lian¹, Minhua Cao³, Xiuguo Cui¹

Affiliations

¹ Beijing Key Lab of Special Elastomer Composite Materials, College of New Materials and Chemical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Petrochemical Technology, Beijing 102617, China.
² State Key Laboratory of Organic Inorganic Composites, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China.
³ School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China.

Abstract

Ionic electroactive polymer-based actuators have attracted much attention due to their low potential stimuli. In this work, MXene-Nafion composite actuators were fabricated, and the actuation performances were tested. The morphology of the as-made MXene-Nafion composite showed that the composite membrane was homogeneous, with an MXene doping level up to 5 wt%. In addition, the results of blocked force, response speed, and durability demonstrated that the actuation behavior of the composite-based actuator was enhanced due to the efficient dispersion of the two-dimensional nanofiller MXene. In addition, the blocking force of the composite actuator with a doping level of 0.5 wt% was about 6 times that of the pure Nafion without back-relaxation and durability degradation during the testing period.

Keywords: MXene; actuation; back-relaxation; carbon nanotubes; ionic electroactive.