• 文献标题:   Green chemistry: Co-assembly of tannin-assisted exfoliated low-defect graphene and epoxy natural rubber latex to form soft and elastic nacre-like film with good electrical conductivity
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   YU ZR, SHI ZX, XU HJ, MA XD, TIAN M, YIN J
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  • 出版物名称:   CARBON
  • ISSN:   0008-6223 EI 1873-3891
  • 通讯作者地址:   Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ
  • 被引频次:   12
  • DOI:   10.1016/j.carbon.2016.12.049
  • 出版年:   2017

▎ 摘  要

In this paper, we successfully prepared low-defect exfoliated graphene-based soft nacre-like composite film with superb elasticity and electrical conductivities, which is quite different from the conventional graphene oxide based film. Herein, we demonstrate a large-scale exfoliation process of graphite by incorporation of Myrtan Condensed Tannins (MCT), a natural polyphenol product extracted from bark of Arbutus. MCT could successfully produce large quantities of exfoliated graphene suspension (233 mg mL(-1)) with very few defects (I-D/I-G similar to 0.27) in water, where more than 68% of these flakes are monolayer. Furthermore, via vacuum-assisted layer-by-layer self-assembled method, the soft and elastic exfoliated graphene-based nacre-like composite film was prepared using epoxy natural rubber (ENR) latex as crosslinking agent. Flexibility and stability of this graphene-based electrical conductive film are greatly enhanced at the same time. The composite films could be stretched by 20% of its initial length with 54 wt % of ENR in it and it could also be directly used as a conductive wire for an LED lamp with a conductivity of 157 S m(-1). Most importantly, most of the raw materials used in this work are low cost natural products which is environmental-friendly and also suitable for production in large quantities. (C) 2016 Published by Elsevier Ltd.