• 文献标题:   Biomimetic Architectured Graphene Aerogel with Exceptional Strength and Resilience
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   YANG M, ZHAO NF, CUI Y, GAO WW, ZHAO Q, GAO C, BAI H, XIE T
  • 作者关键词:   aerogel, biomimetic, plant stem, bidirectional freezing, mechanical performance
  • 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:   71
  • DOI:   10.1021/acsnano.7b01815
  • 出版年:   2017

▎ 摘  要

Materials combining lightweight, robust mechanical performances, and multifunctionality are highly desirable for engineering applications. Graphene aerogels have emerged as attractive candidates. Despite recent progresses, the bottleneck remains how to simultaneously achieve both strength and resilience. While multiscale architecture designs may offer a possible route, the difficulty lies in the lack of design guidelines and how to experimentally achieve the necessary structure control over multiple length scales. The latter is even more challenging when manufacturing scalability is taken into account. The Thalia dealbata stem is a naturally porous material that is lightweight, strong, and resilient, owing to its architecture with three-dimensional (3D) interconnected lamellar layers. Inspired by such, we assemble graphene oxide (GO) sheets into a similar architecture using a bidirectional freezing technique. Subsequent freeze-drying and thermal reduction results in graphene aerogels with highly tunable 3D architectures, consequently an unusual combination of strength and resilience. With their additional electrical conductivity, these graphene aerogels are potentially useful for mechanically switchable electronics. Beyond such, our study establishes bidirectional freezing as a general method to achieve multiscale architectural control in a scalable manner that can be extended to many other material systems.