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Highly stretchable, fast thermal response carbon nanotube composite

heater

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Fujun Xu1,2 , Mohamed Amine Aouraghe1,2, Xing Xie2, Liangang Zheng2, Kun Zhang2, Kun (Kelvin) Fu3

1. Key Laboratory of Textile Science & Technology (Donghua University), Ministry of

Education Shanghai 201620, P. R. China

2. College of textiles, Donghua University, Shanghai 201620, P. R. China

3. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716,

USA

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Corresponding authors’ Email: fjxu@dhu.edu.cn; kfu@udel.edu.

Figure S1 a SEM and b TEM images of carbon nanotube film

 Figure S2 Entangled CNT “Y” junctions in CNT film

140
Sample 1
120 Sample 2
Tensile Strenght (Mpa)

Sample 3
100
80
60
40
20
0
0 10 20 30
Strain (%)

Figure S3 Tensile strengths of carbon nanotube film along CNT aligned direction

Figure S4 Strain sensing property of carbon nanotube film along CNT aligned
direction. a CNT film sample for tensile test, b failure CNT film after tensile test,
 c resistance changing ratio of CNT film during tensile test

R/R0 from 0% to 40% strain

1.0 R/R0 at 40% strain
R/R0(%)

R/R0 at 0% strain

0.5

0.0
0 1000 2000 3000 4000
Time (s)

Figure S5 Resistance changing ratio of CNT/PDMS film under 100 cyclic stretching
with 40 % strain.

Figure S6 FTIR spectra cures of a CNT films and b CNT/PDMS films

 Table S1 Ferformance of CNT based E heaters
Materials Fabrication Dimension hr+c Resistance Reference
method （mm） (mW/℃) under stretching
MWCNT/PDMS Prestretching 20 × 5 2.8±0.4 Stable <40% This study
MWCNT/M- Solution-casting 40×5 6.5±4.3 Unstretchable 2013 [1]
Aramid
MWCNT/PDMS Solution-casting 20×5 8.0±2.5 Unstable 2014 [2]

MWCNT/PDMS Solution-casting 20×5 5.9±0.7 Unstable 2015 [3]

and electron beam
radiation
MWCNT/PDMS Solution-casting 20×5 3.9±0.5 Unstable 2015 [4]
MWCNT/ TPU Solution-casting 30×10 * Unstable 2016 [5]
MWCNT Dipping 20×20 6.1±0.5 Unstable 2016 [6]
/Cellulose
MWCNT/PDMS Spray coating / ** Unstable 2016 [7]
* 140℃ at 10V
**200℃ at 110V

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