The invention discloses a flexible conductive carbon cloth and a preparation method thereof,
acrylonitrile is used as a
raw material, pre-oxidized fibers are obtained through
polymerization and pre-oxidation, the pre-oxidized fibers are subjected to activation treatment for
spinning and weaving, and the flexible conductive carbon cloth is obtained through high-temperature
carbonization and surface activation treatment. A hydrophilic group is introduced into a
polyacrylonitrile molecular chain, so that the affinity of the
fiber to water is increased; meanwhile, the prepared pre-oxidized fibers are compounded with the carbon nanotubes,
carbonization is performed in different temperature zones under
inert gas, the pre-oxidized fibers and the carbon nanotubes generate relatively
strong binding force, the specific surface area of the carbon cloth is increased, and the
conductivity and the flexibility are improved; finally,
chitosan is adopted to perform hydrophilic treatment on the carbon cloth,
aldehyde groups on the two sides of
glutaraldehyde react with the pre-oxidized fibers and-NH2 on the
chitosan,
chitosan molecules are grafted to the surfaces of the pre-oxidized fibers, meanwhile, chitosan molecular chains react with one another, the surfaces of the pre-oxidized fibers are coated with the chitosan molecular chains, the hydrophilicity of the carbon cloth is improved, and the carbon cloth has a good
antibacterial effect. The defects that existing conductive carbon cloth is high in production cost and poor in hydrophilicity and electrochemical activity are overcome.