• 文献标题:   Nanoarchitectured materials composed of fullerene-like spheroids and disordered graphene layers with tunable mechanical properties
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   ZHAO ZS, WANG EF, YAN HP, KONO Y, WEN B, BAI LG, SHI F, ZHANG JF, KENNEYBENSON C, PARK CY, WANG YB, SHEN GY
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  • 出版物名称:   NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
  • ISSN:   2041-1723
  • 通讯作者地址:   Carnegie Inst Sci
  • 被引频次:   85
  • DOI:   10.1038/ncomms7212
  • 出版年:   2015

▎ 摘  要

Type-II glass-like carbon is a widely used material with a unique combination of properties including low density, high strength, extreme impermeability to gas and liquid and resistance to chemical corrosion. It can be considered as a carbon-based nanoarchitectured material, consisting of a disordered multilayer graphene matrix encasing numerous randomly distributed nanosized fullerene-like spheroids. Here we show that under both hydrostatic compression and triaxial deformation, this high-strength material is highly compressible and exhibits a superelastic ability to recover from large strains. Under hydrostatic compression, bulk, shear and Young's moduli decrease anomalously with pressure, reaching minima around 1-2 GPa, where Poisson's ratio approaches zero, and then revert to normal behaviour with positive pressure dependences. Controlling the concentration, size and shape of fullerene-like spheroids with tailored topological connectivity to graphene layers is expected to yield exceptional and tunable mechanical properties, similar to mechanical metamaterials, with potentially wide applications.