Monitoring the manufacturing process of glass fiber reinforced composites with carbon nanotube buckypaper sensor
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2016
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Lu, S.
Chen, D.
Wang, X.
Xiong, X.
Ma, K.
Zhang, L.
Meng, Q.
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Polymer Testing, 2016; 52(52):79-84
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Buckypapers are free-standing porous mats of entangled CNT ropes cohesively bounded by van der waals interactions, and can be used to monitor the manufacturing process of glass fiber reinforced composite. In this paper, the buckypaper (BP) was fabricated with monodispersion of multi-wall carbon nanotubes via spray-vacuum filtration, and its morphology and pore size distribution were characterized by scanning electron microscope and nitrogen adsorption/desorption. The resistance of the BP sensor was obtained using a four-point probe method, and the resistance changes could be related to phase changes of the resin matrix,. Experimental results show that the BP sensor embedded in the glass/epoxy composite laminates has indicated a relative resistance change from -2.9% to 226.5% during the manufacturing process. In addition, the temperature sensitivity of a pristine BP sensor and a BP sensor embedded in composite were also characterized. The results demonstrate that the effect of resin phase changes on the resistance changes of a BP sensor is greater than that of the temperature during composite manufacturing.
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Copyright 2016 Elsevier under a Creative Commons license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)