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- Title
Upcycling of Carbon Fiber/Thermoset Composites into High‐Performance Elastomers and Repurposed Carbon Fibers.
- Authors
Yang, Tiantian; Lu, Xingyuan; Wang, Xiaohan; Wei, Xiang; An, Ni; Li, Yixuan; Wang, Wenjie; Li, Xiang; Fang, Xu; Sun, Junqi
- Abstract
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.
- Subjects
THERMOSETTING composites; CARBON fibers; CARBON fiber-reinforced plastics; FIBROUS composites; SUSTAINABLE chemistry; PLASTICS; ELASTOMERS; LINEAR polymers
- Publication
Angewandte Chemie, 2024, Vol 136, Issue 22, p1
- ISSN
0044-8249
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/ange.202403972