Nonwoven polymer materials based on polyamide-6 coated with stainless steel that are used as electrodes to produce energy and batteries to store it were investigated. Nanofibers were prepared by capillary-free electrospinning. The metal coating was applied using vacuum magnetron sputtering. Continuous metallized nonwoven material coated with sputtered stainless steel was formed after 4-10 min of magnetron sputtering. The resistance of the metallized nonwoven material was seven orders of magnitude less than that of uncoated material and five orders less than that of heat-treated nonwoven material. It was found that vacuum sputtering of the conducting stainless-steel coating reduced the nanofiber diameter by an average of 1.5 times due to evaporation of residual solvent.
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Translated from Khimicheskie Volokna, No. 3, pp. 66-71, May—June, 2017.
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Klimova, S.A., Atkin, V.S., Usachev, A.N. et al. Metallized Nonwoven Electrospun Polyamide-6 Nanofibers for Energy Production and Storage. Fibre Chem 49, 200–204 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10692-017-9869-8
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