Imperial College London
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Prof Milo Shaffer

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Chemistry

Professor of Materials Chemistry
 
 
 
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Contact

 

+44 (0)20 7594 5825m.shaffer Website

 
 
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Assistant

 

Mr John Murrell +44 (0)20 7594 2845

 
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Location

 

401BMolecular Sciences Research HubWhite City Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Lee:2020:10.1021/acsnano.9b09873,
author = {Lee, WJ and Paineau, E and Anthony, DB and Gao, Y and Leese, HS and Rouzière, S and Launois, P and Shaffer, MSP},
doi = {10.1021/acsnano.9b09873},
journal = {ACS Nano},
pages = {5570--5580},
title = {Inorganic nanotube mesophases enable strong self-healing fibers},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.9b09873},
volume = {14},
year = {2020}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - The assembly of one-dimensional nanomaterials into macroscopic fibers can improve mechanical as well as multifunctional performance. Double walled aluminogermanate imogolite nanotubes are geo-inspired analogs of carbon nanotubes, synthesized at low temperature, with complementary properties. Here, continuous imogolite based fibers are wet spun within a polyvinyl alcohol matrix. The lyotropic liquid crystallinity of the system produces highly aligned fibers with tensile stiffness and strength up to 24.1 GPa (14.1 N tex¹) and 0.8 GPa (0.46 N tex¹), respectively. Significant enhancements over the pure polymer control are quantitatively attributed to both matrix refinement and direct nanoscale reinforcement, by fitting an analytical model. Most intriguingly, imogolite-based fibers show a high degree of healability via evaporation induced self assembly, recovering up to 44%, and 19% of the original fiber tensile stiffness and strength, respectively. This recovery at high absolute strength highlights a general strategy for the development of high-performance healable fibers relevant to composite structures and other applications.
AU  - Lee,WJ
AU  - Paineau,E
AU  - Anthony,DB
AU  - Gao,Y
AU  - Leese,HS
AU  - Rouzière,S
AU  - Launois,P
AU  - Shaffer,MSP
DO  - 10.1021/acsnano.9b09873
EP  - 5580
PY  - 2020///
SN  - 1936-0851
SP  - 5570
TI  - Inorganic nanotube mesophases enable strong self-healing fibers
T2  - ACS Nano
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.9b09873
UR  - https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsnano.9b09873
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/78079
VL  - 14
ER  -
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