| Autor: |
Arrington CB; Virginia Tech, Department of Chemistry and Macromolecules Innovation Institute (MII), Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, United States., Rau DA; Virginia Tech, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Macromolecules Innovation Institute (MII), Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, United States., Vandenbrande JA; Arizona State University, School of Molecular Science and Biodesign Center for Sustainable Macromolecular Materials and Manufacturing, Tempe, Arizona 85281, United States., Hegde M; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Applied Physical Sciences, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, United States., Williams CB; Virginia Tech, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Macromolecules Innovation Institute (MII), Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, United States., Long TE; Arizona State University, School of Molecular Science and Biodesign Center for Sustainable Macromolecular Materials and Manufacturing, Tempe, Arizona 85281, United States. |
| Abstrakt: |
Fully aromatic polyimides are amenable to efficient carbonization in thin two-dimensional (2D) films due to a complement of aromaticity and planarity of backbone repeating units. However, repeating unit rigidity traditionally imposes processing limitations, restricting many fully aromatic polyimides, e.g., pyromellitic dianhydride with 4,4'-oxidianiline (PMDA-ODA) polyimides, to a 2D form factor. Recently, research efforts in our laboratories enabled additive manufacturing of micron-scale resolution PMDA-ODA polyimide objects using vat photopolymerization (VP) and ultraviolet-assisted direct ink write (UV-DIW) following careful thermal postprocessing of the three-dimensional (3D) organogel precursors to 400 °C. Further thermal postprocessing of printed objects to 1000 °C induced pyrolysis of the PMDA-ODA objects to disordered carbon. The pyrolyzed objects retained excellent geometric resolution, and Raman spectroscopy displayed characteristic disordered (D) and graphitic (G) carbon bands. Scanning electron microscopy probed the cross-sectional homogeneity of the carbonized samples, revealing an absence of pore formation during carbonization. Likewise, impedance analysis of carbonized specimens indicated only a moderate decrease in conductivity compared to thin films that were pyrolyzed using an identical carbonization process. Facile pyrolysis of PMDA-ODA objects now enables the production of carbonaceous monoliths with complex and predictable three-dimensional geometries using commercially available starting materials. |
