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SiC Nanowire Sponges as Electropressure Sensors

Chen, Yu; Ola, Oluwafunmilola; Chen, Hongmei; Wang, Nannan; Xia, Yongde; Zhu, Yanqiu

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Authors

Yu Chen

Hongmei Chen

Nannan Wang

Yongde Xia

Yanqiu Zhu



Abstract

Lightweight, flexible, and highly porous ceramics are very attractive to engineering applications due to their good inertness, stability, and excellent mechanical properties. We here report such SiC nanowire (SiCNW) sponges and demonstrate their multifunctionalities. They were simply generated by reacting SiO2 with sustainable kitchen sugar, using NH4Cl as a blowing agent. The as-grown, highly porous SiCNW sponges exhibit a core-shell structure, with an extremely low density in the range of 115-125 mg/cm3 (against 3.21 g/cm3 for the bulk). The core part is comprised of short and tangled SiC whiskers with SiC flakes embedded, while the shell layer consists of numerous smooth SiCNWs of a hundred micrometers long. These sponges exhibit a compressive modulus of ∼1.35 MPa and recoverability under cyclic compression loading for 100 cycles at a strain of 20%. Meanwhile, the SiCNW sponges exhibit interesting electromechanical sensing capability with a gauge factor up to 87 and stable wide-range compression-resistance responses that are hundreds of times better than those of carbon-based composite sensors. Furthermore, the high porosity (96.1-96.4%) of the sponges gives rise to a very low thermal conductivity of merely 1.01 W/mK at room temperature, demonstrating their excellent thermal insulation potential. These lightweight, highly porous, thermally insulating features of the SiCNW sponges can be further exploited in electromechanical microdevices for monitoring structural damage or capturing impacts, at a high-temperature environment.

Citation

Chen, Y., Ola, O., Chen, H., Wang, N., Xia, Y., & Zhu, Y. (2019). SiC Nanowire Sponges as Electropressure Sensors. ACS Applied Nano Materials, 2(12), 7540-7548. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsanm.9b01590

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Nov 11, 2019
Online Publication Date Nov 13, 2019
Publication Date Dec 27, 2019
Deposit Date Jan 22, 2021
Publicly Available Date Feb 17, 2021
Journal ACS Applied Nano Materials
Print ISSN 2574-0970
Electronic ISSN 2574-0970
Publisher American Chemical Society
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 2
Issue 12
Pages 7540-7548
DOI https://doi.org/10.1021/acsanm.9b01590
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/5251732
Publisher URL https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsanm.9b01590
Additional Information This document is the Accepted Manuscript version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in ACS Applied Nano Materials, copyright © American Chemical Society after peer review and technical editing by the publisher. To access the final edited and published work see https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsanm.9b01590.

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