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Formation of Poly(vinyl alcohol)/SWNTs Fibers with Hierarchical Structure under High-Speed Shear Flow

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This study introduces a facile method to prepare syndiotactic poly(vinyl alcohol) (s-PVA) fibers containing singlewalled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) from the corresponding composite dispersions with tea polyphenols (TP) as dispersant under high-speed shear flow. The formation of the composite fibrous precipitates at high shear rate is largely facilitated by the SWNTs in the dispersions and slight flow resistance. Interestingly, the obtained s-PVA/SWNTs composite precipitates possess a three-level hierarchical structure, that is, a single fiber is assembled by fibrils which are composed of microfibrils of s-PVA-coated SWNTs. And the s-PVA fibrous precipitates containing high amounts of SWNTs could be obtained by shearing the dispersion with relatively low SWNTs loadings, as a result, the composite fiber containing 20.7 wt% SWNTs was prepared from the dispersion with 10.0 wt% SWNTs. In addition, with the increase of SWNTs loadings, the amount of the precipitates increases, but crystallinity of the precipitates decreases instead.

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Acknowledgments

This research was supported by Jiangsu Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (No. BK20161214). Authors are grateful to Prof. Kazuo Yamaura (Shinshu University, Japan) for valuable support including donation of the s-PVA samples.

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    Xia Wang, Changcun Wu, Jun Sun, Chuanxiang Qin, Jianjun Wang & Lixing Dai

  2. College of Material Science and Engineering, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, 212003, China

    Qiqi Zhuo

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Wang, X., Wu, C., Sun, J. et al. Formation of Poly(vinyl alcohol)/SWNTs Fibers with Hierarchical Structure under High-Speed Shear Flow. Fibers Polym 21, 1078–1085 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12221-020-9708-z

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