Development of Porous-Polyacrylonitrile-Based Fibers Using Nanocellulose Additives as Precursor for Carbon Fiber Manufacturing

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Abstract

Cellulose is a renewable and environmentally friendly raw material that has an important economic and technical impact in several applications. Recently, nanocellulose (NC) presented a promising road to support the manufacturing of functional carbon fibers (CFs), which are considered superior materials for several applications because of their outstanding properties. However, the smooth and limited effective surface areas make CFs virtually useless in some applications, such as energy storage. Therefore, strategies to increase the porosity of CFs are highly desirable to realize their potential. Within this article, we present an approach that focuses on the designing of porous CF precursors using polyacrilonitrile (PAN) and NC additives using a wet spinning method. To enhance the porosity, two jet stretching (50% and 100%) and four NC additive amounts (0 wt.%, 0.1 wt.%, 0.4 wt.% and 0.8 wt.%) have been applied and investigated. In comparison with the reference PAN fibers (without NC additives and stretching), the results showed an increase in specific surface area from 10.45 m2/g to 138.53 m2/g and in total pore volume from 0.03 cm3/g to 0.49 cm3/g. On the other hand, mechanical properties have been affected negatively by NC additives and the stretching process. Stabilization and carbonization processes could be applied in a future study to support the production of multifunctional porous CF.

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Original languageEnglish
Article number565
Number of pages15
JournalPolymers
Volume15
Issue number3
Publication statusPublished - 21 Jan 2023
Peer-reviewedYes

External IDs

unpaywall 10.3390/polym15030565
PubMed 36771866
Mendeley 31f2c567-fd4e-3c77-abf2-b27672def9e9
Scopus 85147944094
WOS 000929687300001

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Keywords

  • nanocellulose, polyacrilonitrile, porous fibers, precursors, process development, wet spinning, Nanocellulose, Precursors, Process development, Porous fibers, Polyacrilonitrile, Wet spinning