There has been growing interest in the polymer nanocomposites for their excellent performance in a wide range of applications, such as, printable electronics, interlayer dielectrics , thermoplastics and so on. Here, we reported an electrospinning process which can fabricate the graphene/polymer nanoscale composite fiber. The graphene was prepared from expanded graphite through the hummers method. The spinning dope was prepared by mixed the graphene into different polymer, such as PVDF, PEO by a solution process. After an electrospinning process in DC mode, various graphene/polymer nanofibers were fabericated. The diameters of the composite fibers were in the range from 30 nm to 2000 nm.  In addition, the effect of the spinning voltage, the spinning distance and the precursor concentration on the morphology of the composite fiber was characerized.   Extensive industrial applications will be presented in the meeting. KEYWORDS :    Graphene,  Nanofiber ,  Electrospinning ,  PVDF,  PEO

Fabrication of graphene/polymer composite nanofiber using electrospinning

245th National Meeting (2013)

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