Realizing Mechanically Robust and Electrically Conductive Wood via Vacuum Pressure Impregnation

Autor: Lili Li, Yamei Wang, Peng Chen, Xiaotao Zhang, Ximing Wang, Wang Li, Qin He, Guoyan Ning, Zhangjing Chen, Lihong Yao, Zhe Wang, Yinan Hao, Yukun Ren, Sunguo Wang, Jianfang Yu, Lijun Ding
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: ACS Applied Bio Materials. 3:6071-6078
ISSN: 2576-6422
DOI: 10.1021/acsabm.0c00667
Popis: Wood is highly regarded as the most sustainable resource that is widely used in structural applications. To extend its practicality in electrically conductive applications, it is necessary to confer electrical conductivity to the insulating wood. The most common strategy is to derive carbonized wood powder via an annealing process. Even though these carbonized wood powders are electrically conductive, they lost the ancestry characteristic of wood, that is, excellent mechanical properties. As such, it is of great importance to realize the concept of conductive wood while at the same time maintaining or even enhancing its mechanical properties further. By leveraging on the naturally formed transportation channels found in trees, conductive particles can be aligned along these ordered channels. To substitute active transport in living plants, a vacuum pressure impregnation process was used to infiltrate these conductive particles into the transportation channels. As a result, Cu/wood composite, denoted as Cu-SW, exhibited a minimum volume resistivity of 1.366 × 10
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