• 文献标题:   Crumpled Nanopaper from Graphene Oxide
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   MA XF, ZACHARIAH MR, ZANGMEISTER CD
  • 作者关键词:   graphene, graphene oxide, crumpling, fractal dimension, aerosol, ion mobility
  • 出版物名称:   NANO LETTERS
  • ISSN:   1530-6984
  • 通讯作者地址:   Natl Inst Stand Technol
  • 被引频次:   108
  • DOI:   10.1021/nl203964z
  • 出版年:   2012

▎ 摘  要

Graphene oxide (GO) in aqueous solution was aerosolized and rapidly dried to produce crumpled nanopaper-like sheets. Online size selection and aerosol mass analysis was used to determine the fractal dimension (D) of crumpled GO nanosheets as 2.54 +/- 0.04. That is identical to macroscale materials, such as crumpled balls of paper and foil. Thermal reduction of crumpled GO nanosheets did not change D, even after loss of nearly 25% of the nanosheets mass. We demonstrate that D is able to be tuned by altering solvent conditions. A 10% acetone mixture increased D to 2.68 +/- 0.02. Calculations of the confinement force show that crumpling of GO nanosheets is driven by the capillary force associated with rapid solvent loss.