The electrospinning of cellulose fibres will be introduced with methods to spin a cellulose acetate precursor followed by deacetylation to form the regenerated polymer. It will be shown that these precursors can be spun with additives such as single walled and multiwalled nanotubes and silicon carbide nanowhiskers. The carbonisation and subsequent graphitization of the fibres is demonstrated as a possible route for making high performance fibres. Values of the modulus of the fibres exceed 100 GPa, making them potentially competitive with glass. The formation of activated carbon fibres are demonstrated as useful supercapacitor materials. Values of capacitance in the range 140 - 160 F g-1 are reported with improved cycling stability compared to other competitor materials.

Electrospun cellulose fibres for carbon fibre precursors

247th National Meeting (2014)

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