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Graphene oxide reinforced poly(vinyl alcohol) composite fibers via template-oriented crystallization

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Here, a high breaking strength and high initial modulus fibers comprised of polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) and graphene oxide (GO) were fabricated via simple method of solution blending and wet-spinning. The structure and properties of these fibers were studied in details using two-dimensional X-ray diffractions, differential scanning calorimetry, one-dimensional X-ray diffractions, scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, dynamic mechanical analysis and tensile test. Compared with pure PVA fiber, a 43 % improvement of breaking strength and an 81 % improvement of initial modulus were achieved by addition of 0.1 wt% of GO, and the results indicated that crystallization and orientation of GO/PVA composite fibers were both increased. GO could not only promote PVA chains ordered arrangement for increasing crystallization, but also act as a template for polymer amorphous orientation via the interactions between PVA and GO in the process of hot drawing and heat setting, which were responsible for the significant improvement in the mechanical properties of GO/PVA composite fibers.

GO could not only promote PVA chains ordered arrangement for increasing crystallization, but also act as a template for PVA amorphous orientation in the process of hot drawing. The amorphous orientation degree and the crystallization degree of PVA fibers were increased by adding GO.

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Acknowledgments

The financial support of the National Natural Science Foundation of China with grant No.51273116 and the financial support of Science & Technology Support Program of Sichuan Province with grant No.2016GZ0376 and the graphene oxide support of the Chongqing Institute of Green and Intelligent Technology (Chongqing, China) are gratefully acknowledged.

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    Shengchang Zhang, Pengqing Liu, Erpeng Jia, Xiangsen Zhao & Jianjun Xu

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Zhang, S., Liu, P., Jia, E. et al. Graphene oxide reinforced poly(vinyl alcohol) composite fibers via template-oriented crystallization. J Polym Res 23, 215 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10965-016-1109-z

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