Aligned carbon nanotube/polymer composite film with anisotropic tribological behavior

Hui Zhang; Longbin Qiu; Houpu Li; Zhitao Zhang; Zhibin Yang; Huisheng Peng

doi:10.1016/j.jcis.2012.12.024

Aligned carbon nanotube/polymer composite film with anisotropic tribological behavior

J Colloid Interface Sci. 2013 Apr 1:395:322-5. doi: 10.1016/j.jcis.2012.12.024. Epub 2012 Dec 19.

Authors

Hui Zhang¹, Longbin Qiu, Houpu Li, Zhitao Zhang, Zhibin Yang, Huisheng Peng

Affiliation

¹ State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Department of Macromolecular Science, and Laboratory of Advanced Materials, Fudan University, Shanghai 200438, China.

PMID: 23312912
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2012.12.024

Abstract

A general method had been developed to prepare highly aligned carbon nanotube/polymer composite films, which represented the first composite material with an anisotropic tribological property on the surface. The friction coefficient in the transverse direction was about 2 times of that of longitudinal direction. In addition, the aligned nanotubes provided the composite film with excellent electrical, mechanical, and thermal properties. This work also presented an efficient paradigm to synthesize friction materials with an anisotropic tribological behavior by introduction of one-dimensional nanostructures.