• 文献标题:   Million-Fold Decrease in Polymer Moisture Permeability by a Graphene Monolayer
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   SEETHARNRAJU S, KUMAR S, BHARADWAJ BK, MADRAS G, RAGHAVAN S, RAMAMURTHY PC
  • 作者关键词:   graphene, polymer, moisture barrier, water vapor transmission rate, cavity ring down spectroscopy, organic device encapsulation, dft simulation
  • 出版物名称:   ACS NANO
  • ISSN:   1936-0851 EI 1936-086X
  • 通讯作者地址:   Indian Inst Sci
  • 被引频次:   18
  • DOI:   10.1021/acsnano.6b02588
  • 出版年:   2016

▎ 摘  要

Flexible, transparent, and moisture-impermeable materials are critical for packaging applications in electronic, food, and pharmaceutical industries. Here, we report that a single graphene layer embedded in a flexible polymer reduces its water vapor transmission rate (WVTR) by up to a million-fold. Large-area, transparent, graphene-embedded polymers (GEPs) with a WVTR as low as 10(-6) g m(-2) day(-1) are demonstrated. Monolayered graphene, synthesized by chemical vapor deposition, has been transferred onto the polymer substrate directly by a very simple and scalable melt casting process to fabricate the GEPs. The performances of the encapsulated organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices do not vary even after subjecting the GEPs to cyclic bending for 1000 cycles. Accelerated aging studies of working OPV devices encapsulated in the GEPs show a 50% lifetime of equivalent to 1 000 000 min, which satisfies the requirements of organic electronics.