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A novel wet-spinning method of manufacturing continuous bio-inspired composites based on graphene oxide and sodium alginate

Xiaozhen Hu1,2, Sangeetha Rajendran2, Yuansi Yao2, Zheng Liu2, Karthikeyan Gopalsamy2, Li Peng2, Chao Gao1,2( )
State Key Laboratory for Modification of Chemical Fibers and Polymer MaterialsDonghua UniversityShanghai201620China
MOE Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Synthesis and FunctionalizationDepartment of Polymer Science and EngineeringZhejiang UniversityHangzhou310027China
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Nacre is a lightweight, strong, stiff, and tough material, which makes it a mimicking object for material design. Many attempts to mimic nacre by various methods resulted in the synthesis of artificial nacre with excellent properties. However, the fabrication procedure was very laborious and time-consuming due to the sequential steps, and only limited-sized materials could be obtained. Hence, a novel design enabling scalable production of high-performance artificial nacre with uniform layered structures is urgently needed. We developed a novel wet-spinning assembly technique to rapidly manufacture continuous nacremimic graphene oxide (GO, brick)-sodium alginate (SA, mortar) films and fibers with excellent mechanical properties. At high concentrations, the GO-SA mixtures spontaneously produced liquid crystals (LCs) due to the template effect of GO, and continuous, 6 m long nacre-like GO-SA films were wet-spun from the obtained GO-SA liquid crystalline (LC) dope with a speed of up to 1.5 m/min. The assembled macroscopic GO-SA composites inherited the alignment of the GO sheets from the LC phase, and their mechanical properties were investigated by a joint experimental-computational study. The tensile tests revealed that the maximum strength (σ) and Young's modulus (E) of the obtained films reached 239.6 MPa and 22.4 GPa, while the maximum values of σ and E for the fibers were 784.9 MPa and 58 GPa, respectively. The described wet-spinning assembly method is applicable for a large-scale and fast production of high-performance continuous artificial nacre.

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continuousbio-inspired filmssodium alginategraphene oxidewet-spinning method

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Nano Research
Volume 9 Issue 3,
March 2016
Pages 735-744
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-015-0952-2
Cite this article:
Hu X, Rajendran S, Yao Y, et al. A novel wet-spinning method of manufacturing continuous bio-inspired composites based on graphene oxide and sodium alginate. Nano Research, 2016, 9(3): 735-744. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-015-0952-2

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Received: 22 September 2015
Revised: 16 November 2015
Accepted: 22 November 2015
Published: 09 January 2016
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