Upcycling of Carbon Fiber/Thermoset Composites into High-Performance Elastomers and Repurposed Carbon Fibers

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Recycling of carbon fiber-reinforced polymer composites (CFRCs) based on thermosetting plastics is difficult. In the present study, high-performance CFRCs are fabricated through complexation of aromatic pinacol-cross-linked polyurethane (PU-AP) thermosets with carbon fiber (CF) cloths. PU-AP thermosets exhibit a breaking strength of 95.5 MPa and toughness of 473.6 MJ m-3 and contain abundant hydrogen-bonding groups, which can have strong adhesion with CFs. Because of the high interfacial adhesion between CF cloths and PU-AP thermosets and high toughness of PU-AP thermosets, CF/PU-AP composites possess a high tensile strength of >870 MPa. Upon heating in N,N-dimethylacetamide (DMAc) at 100 °C, the aromatic pinacols in the CF/PU-AP composites can be cleaved, generating non-destructive CF cloths and linear polymers that can be converted to high-performance elastomers. The elastomers are mechanically robust, healable, reprocessable, and damage-resistant with an extremely high tensile strength of 74.2 MPa and fracture energy of 149.6 kJ m-2. As a result, dissociation of CF/PU-AP composites enables the recovery of reusable CF cloths and high-performance elastomers, thus realizing the upcycling of CF/PU-AP composites.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

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2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2024

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Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) - (2024) vom: 15. März, Seite e202403972

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Yang, Tiantian [VerfasserIn]
Lu, Xingyuan [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Xiaohan [VerfasserIn]
Wei, Xiang [VerfasserIn]
An, Ni [VerfasserIn]
Li, Yixuan [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Wenjie [VerfasserIn]
Li, Xiang [VerfasserIn]
Fang, Xu [VerfasserIn]
Sun, Junqi [VerfasserIn]

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Carbon Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Composites
Chemical Upcycling
Elastomers
Journal Article
Materials Science
Sustainable Chemistry

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Date Revised 05.04.2024

published: Print-Electronic

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doi:

10.1002/anie.202403972

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NLM369814479