Effect of the Structure Morphology on the Mechanical Properties of Crumpled Graphene Fiber

Autor: Julia Baimova, Polina Polyakova, Stepan Shcherbinin
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Fibers, Vol 9, Iss 12, p 85 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2079-6439
DOI: 10.3390/fib9120085
Popis: Crumpled graphene fiber is a promising structure to be a graphene precursor to enhance the production and mechanical properties of various carbon fibers. The primary goal of the present work is to study the crumpled graphene of different morphologies using molecular dynamics simulations to find the effect of the structural peculiarities on the mechanical properties, such as the tensile strength, elastic modulus, and deformation characteristics. Mono- and poly-disperse structures are considered under uniaxial tension along two different axes. As it is found, both structures are isotropic and stress–strain curves for tension along different directions are very similar. Young’s modulus of crumpled graphene is close, about 50 and 80 GPa; however, the strength of the polydisperse structure is bigger at the elastic regime. While a monodisperse structure can in-elastically deform until high tensile strength of 90 GPa, structure analysis showed that polydisperse crumpled graphene fiber pores appeared two times faster than the monodisperse ones.
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