IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/nat/natcom/v2y2011i1d10.1038_ncomms1247.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Development of a universal stress sensor for graphene and carbon fibres

Author

Listed:
  • Otakar Frank

    (Institute of Chemical Engineering and High Temperature Chemical Processes, Foundation of Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH/ICE-HT), Stadiou Street, Platani, Patras 265 04, Greece.
    Present address: J. Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry, v.v.i., Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Dolejskova 3, 182 23 Prague 8 , Czech Republic.)

  • Georgia Tsoukleri

    (Institute of Chemical Engineering and High Temperature Chemical Processes, Foundation of Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH/ICE-HT), Stadiou Street, Platani, Patras 265 04, Greece.
    University of Patras)

  • Ibtsam Riaz

    (School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester)

  • Konstantinos Papagelis

    (Institute of Chemical Engineering and High Temperature Chemical Processes, Foundation of Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH/ICE-HT), Stadiou Street, Platani, Patras 265 04, Greece.
    University of Patras)

  • John Parthenios

    (Institute of Chemical Engineering and High Temperature Chemical Processes, Foundation of Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH/ICE-HT), Stadiou Street, Platani, Patras 265 04, Greece.
    University of Patras)

  • Andrea C. Ferrari

    (Cambridge University)

  • Andre K. Geim

    (School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester)

  • Kostya S. Novoselov

    (School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester)

  • Costas Galiotis

    (Institute of Chemical Engineering and High Temperature Chemical Processes, Foundation of Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH/ICE-HT), Stadiou Street, Platani, Patras 265 04, Greece.
    University of Patras
    University of Patras)

Abstract

Carbon fibres are a significant volume fraction of modern structural airframes. Embedded into polymer matrices, they provide significant strength and stiffness gains by unit weight compared with competing structural materials. Here we use the Raman G peak to assess the response of carbon fibres to the application of strain, with reference to the response of graphene itself. Our data highlight the predominance of the in-plane graphene properties in all graphitic structures examined. A universal master plot relating the G peak strain sensitivity to tensile modulus of all types of carbon fibres, as well as graphene, is presented. We derive a universal value of—average—phonon shift rate with axial stress of around −5ω0−1 (cm−1 MPa−1), where ω0 is the G peak position at zero stress for both graphene and carbon fibre with annular morphology. The use of this for stress measurements in a variety of applications is discussed.

Suggested Citation

  • Otakar Frank & Georgia Tsoukleri & Ibtsam Riaz & Konstantinos Papagelis & John Parthenios & Andrea C. Ferrari & Andre K. Geim & Kostya S. Novoselov & Costas Galiotis, 2011. "Development of a universal stress sensor for graphene and carbon fibres," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 2(1), pages 1-7, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:2:y:2011:i:1:d:10.1038_ncomms1247
    DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1247
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms1247
    File Function: Abstract
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1038/ncomms1247?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Yan Li & Fusheng Wang & Chenguang Huang & Jianting Ren & Donghong Wang & Jie Kong & Tao Liu & Laohu Long, 2023. "Impact damage reduction of woven composites subject to pulse current," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 14(1), pages 1-11, December.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:2:y:2011:i:1:d:10.1038_ncomms1247. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.nature.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.