• 文献标题:   A seamless three-dimensional carbon nanotube graphene hybrid material
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   ZHU Y, LI L, ZHANG CG, CASILLAS G, SUN ZZ, YAN Z, RUAN GD, PENG ZW, RAJI ARO, KITTRELL C, HAUGE RH, TOUR JM
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  • 出版物名称:   NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
  • ISSN:   2041-1723
  • 通讯作者地址:   Rice Univ
  • 被引频次:   323
  • DOI:   10.1038/ncomms2234
  • 出版年:   2012

▎ 摘  要

Graphene and single-walled carbon nanotubes are carbon materials that exhibit excellent electrical conductivities and large specific surface areas. Theoretical work suggested that a covalently bonded graphene/single-walled carbon nanotube hybrid material would extend those properties to three dimensions, and be useful in energy storage and nanoelectronic technologies. Here we disclose a method to bond graphene and single-walled carbon nanotubes seamlessly during the growth stage. The hybrid material exhibits a surface area >2,000 m(2) g(-1) with ohmic contact from the vertically aligned single-walled carbon nanotubes to the graphene. Using aberration-corrected scanning transmission electron microscopy, we observed the covalent transformation of sp(2) carbon between the planar graphene and the single-walled carbon nanotubes at the atomic resolution level. These findings provide a new benchmark for understanding the three-dimensional graphene/single-walled carbon nanotube-conjoined materials.