Abstract
Here, a high breaking strength and high initial modulus fibers comprised of polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) and graphene oxide (GO) were fabricated via simple method of solution blending and wet-spinning. The structure and properties of these fibers were studied in details using two-dimensional X-ray diffractions, differential scanning calorimetry, one-dimensional X-ray diffractions, scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, dynamic mechanical analysis and tensile test. Compared with pure PVA fiber, a 43 % improvement of breaking strength and an 81 % improvement of initial modulus were achieved by addition of 0.1 wt% of GO, and the results indicated that crystallization and orientation of GO/PVA composite fibers were both increased. GO could not only promote PVA chains ordered arrangement for increasing crystallization, but also act as a template for polymer amorphous orientation via the interactions between PVA and GO in the process of hot drawing and heat setting, which were responsible for the significant improvement in the mechanical properties of GO/PVA composite fibers.
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