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Nanomesh graphene (NMG) obtained by template chemical vapor deposition was used to synthesize the binder-free graphene monoliths by simple tablet pressing. The stacking manner of the NMG sheets was crucial to the cohesion interaction between the graphene sheets, only the NMG materials with a loosely stacking manner could be pressed into binder-free monoliths. At the tableting pressure of 2-8 MPa, both the bulk densities and the specific surface areas of the monoliths keep nearly constant as the tableting pressure increases, indicating that the NMG monoliths have obvious elasticity and a porous structure due to the large corrugations and the mesh structures of the graphene sheets. As a result, an extraordinary methane storage capacity of 236 (v/v) at 9 MPa was obtained in the graphene monolith prepared by tableting at 4 MPa. (C) 2013 Chinese Society of Particuology and Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.