• 文献标题:   Superconducting Continuous Graphene Fibers via Calcium Intercalation
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   LIU YJ, LIANG H, XU Z, XI JB, CHEN GF, GAO WW, XUE MQ, GAO C
  • 作者关键词:   graphene, wetspinning, graphene fiber, superconducting wire, carbonbased superconductor, ca intercalation
  • 出版物名称:   ACS NANO
  • ISSN:   1936-0851 EI 1936-086X
  • 通讯作者地址:   Zhejiang Univ
  • 被引频次:   23
  • DOI:   10.1021/acsnano.7b01491
  • 出版年:   2017

▎ 摘  要

Superconductors are important materials in the field of low-temperature magnet applications and long-distance electrical power transmission systems. Besides metal-based superconducting materials, carbon-based superconductors have attracted considerable attention in recent years. Up to now, five allotropes of carbon, including diamond, graphite, C-60, CNTs, and graphene, have been reported to show superconducting behavior. However, most of the carbon-based superconductors are limited to small size and discontinuous phases, which inevitably hinders further application in macroscopic form. Therefore, it raises a question of whether continuously carbon-based superconducting wires could be accessed, which is of vital importance from viewpoints of fundamental research and practical application. Here, inspired by superconducting graphene, we successfully fabricated flexible graphene-based superconducting fibers via a well-established calcium (Ca) intercalation strategy. The resultant Ca-intercalated graphene fiber (Ca-GF) shows a superconducting transition at similar to 11 K, which is almost 2 orders of magnitude higher than that of early reported alkali metal intercalated graphite and comparable to that of commercial superconducting NbTi wire. The combination of lightness and easy scalability makes Ca-GF highly promising as a lightweight superconducting wire.