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Effect of Strain Rate on the Mechanical Behavior of 10-micron Long Polymeric Nanofibers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2011

Mohammad Naraghi ,
Ioannis Chasiotis ,
Yuris Dzenis ,
Y. Wen  and
Hal Kahn
Mohammad Naraghi
Affiliation:
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Aerospace Engineering, 104 South Wright St. M/C 236, Urbana, IL, 61874, United States
Ioannis Chasiotis
Affiliation:
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Aerospace Engineering, Urbana, IL, 61801, United States
Yuris Dzenis
Affiliation:
ydzenis@unl.edu, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, 68588, United States
Y. Wen
Affiliation:
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, 68588, United St ates
Hal Kahn
Affiliation:
harold.kahn@case.edu, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, 44106, United States
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Abstract

The strain rate mechanical behavior of 12-micron long polymeric nanofibers was investigated. Experiments were carried out by a novel method that employs a MEMS-based leaf spring load cell attached to a polymeric nanofiber that is drawn with an external PZT actuator. The elongation of the fiber and the deflection of the load cell were calculated from optical microscopy images by using Digital Image Correlation (DIC) and with 65 nm resolution in fiber extension. The nanofibers were fabricated from electrospun polyacrylonitrile (PAN) with MW = 150,000 and diameters between 300-600 nm. At strain rates between 0.00025 s−1 to 0.025 s−1 the fiber ductility scaled directly with the rate of loading while the tensile strength was found to vary non-monotonically: At 0.00025 s−1 material relaxations allowed for near-uniform fiber drawing with up to 120% ductility and 120 MPa maximum tensile strength. At the two faster rates the tensile strength scaled with the rate of loading but the fiber ductility was the result of a cascade of localized deformations at nanoscale necks with relatively constant wavelength for all fiber diameters.

Keywords

nanoscalepolymerstress/strain relationship
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Research Article
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 948: Symposium B – Structure, Processing and Properties of Polymer Nanofibers for Emerging Technologies , 2006 , 0948-B08-03
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2007

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