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Fabrication of reduced graphene oxide/chitosan composite fiber by dry-jet wet spinning

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Reduced graphene oxide (rGO) which was nontoxic, reduced from graphene oxide (GO), and decorated was mixed with chitosan (CS) solution to prepare rGO/chitosan (rGO/CS) biocomposite fiber by dry-jet wet spinning. rGO-/genipin-cross-linked CS (rGO/GCS) composite fiber was prepared. The conditions on nontoxic reduction of GO, namely decoration, spinning, drawing, and nontoxic cross-linking, were studied and optimized. The way to disperse rGO homogeneously in spinning solution was discussed. After surface decorating, rGO was covered by CS without reunion. No phase separation in rGO/CS spinning solution was observed. The solution remained stable for a week after being diluted. The decoration of CS was an effective way to achieve homogeneous dispersion of rGO in solution for spinning. Raman spectroscopy, Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscope (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and fluorescence spectroscopy were used to characterize the fibers and their precursors. A series of rGO/CS fibers with a diameter of 0.1 mm were successfully fabricated. The well-dispersed and exfoliated rGO nanosheets were assembled in CS matrix. Both rGO/CS fibers and rGO/GCS fibers maintained the intrinsic fluorescence. Both uncross-linked and cross-linked composite fibers could be bent freely. The work built up the foundation for systematic conductivity and mechanical property research about rGO/CS composite fibers.

The thickness of rGO is several nanometers, and the rGO has exfoliated into nanoscale fillers.

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This work was supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (no. 53200859721 and no.2-9-2017-346) and the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Project for Undergraduate Students (2016AX031), China University of Geosciences, Beijing.

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  1. Beijing Key Laboratory of Materials Utilization of Nonmetallic Minerals and Solid Wastes, National Laboratory of Mineral Materials, School of Materials Science and Technology, China University of Geosciences, Beijing, 100083, China

    Cuipeng Zhang, Xiangyang Hao, Xiao Lv, Jianfeng Zhu, Wenli Han & Yihe Zhang

  2. School of Physical Electronics, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, 610054, China

    Yan Zhang

  3. Center of Bio and Micro/Nano Functional Materials, State Key Laboratory of Crystal Materials, Shandong University, Jinan, 250013, China

    Hong Liu

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Zhang, C., Zhang, Y., Hao, X. et al. Fabrication of reduced graphene oxide/chitosan composite fiber by dry-jet wet spinning. Adv Compos Hybrid Mater 1, 347–355 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42114-018-0029-2

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