Issue 12, 2024

Mechanical enhancement and high linearity health monitoring of composite materials based on CNTs/PSF/PI film sensor with ultra-low SWCNTs doping content

Abstract

A new type of embedded composite material health monitoring nano-sensor is designed to ensure that the unique material advantages of nanofillers can be maximized. The carbon nanotubes (CNTs)/polysulfone (PSF)/polyimide (PI) thin film sensor in this paper is obtained by the self-assembly of a PSF/PI asymmetric porous membrane which is prepared by a phase inversion method through vacuum filtration of SWCNTs. It is a new structure for a practical CNT sensor that can take into account both ‘composite health monitoring and damage warning’ and ‘composite mechanical enhancement’. The new structure of the CNTs/PSF/PI film sensor is divided into two parts. The upper part consists of small-aperture finger-like holes filled with SWCNTs (the SWCNT content is 0.0127 mg cm−2). The lower part consists of large-aperture cavities conducive to resin infiltration, which enhance the interface bonding force between the sensor and the composite material. This unique structure allows the CNTs/PSF/PI film sensor to change the influence of the embedded sensor from ‘introducing defects’ to ‘local enhancement’, and the mechanical strength of the enhanced specimen can reach up to 1.68 times that of the original specimen, and the service interval can reach 2.01 times that of the original specimen. In addition, the CNTs/PSF/PI film sensor also has good sensitivity (GF = 2.54) and extremely high linearity (R2 = 0.9995), and has excellent follow-up and interface bonding ability. It can also maintain excellent fatigue resistance and stability over 46 500 vibration cycles, which provides new research ideas and research methods for the field of composite-life monitoring sensors.

Graphical abstract: Mechanical enhancement and high linearity health monitoring of composite materials based on CNTs/PSF/PI film sensor with ultra-low SWCNTs doping content

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
26 Dec 2023
Accepted
13 Feb 2024
First published
13 Feb 2024

Nanoscale, 2024,16, 6176-6189

Mechanical enhancement and high linearity health monitoring of composite materials based on CNTs/PSF/PI film sensor with ultra-low SWCNTs doping content

X. Cui, Y. Wang, S. Lu, Y. Wang, B. Zhang, Y. Yang, Y. Xie and L. Zhang, Nanoscale, 2024, 16, 6176 DOI: 10.1039/D3NR06608H

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