• 文献标题:   Direct fabrication of carbon nanotube-graphene hybrid films by a blown bubble method
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   WU ST, SHI EZ, YANG YB, XU WJ, LI XY, CAO AY
  • 作者关键词:   carbon nanotube, graphene, hybrid structure, blown bubble assembly, solar cell
  • 出版物名称:   NANO RESEARCH
  • ISSN:   1998-0124 EI 1998-0000
  • 通讯作者地址:   Peking Univ
  • 被引频次:   11
  • DOI:   10.1007/s12274-014-0679-5
  • 出版年:   2015

▎ 摘  要

Hybridization of carbon nanotubes (CNT) with graphene provides a promising means of integrating the attributes of both materials, thereby enabling widespread application. Here, we present a method to directly assemble hybrid CNT-graphene films by a blown bubble method combined with selective substrate annealing. We use polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) as the polymeric matrix to blow bubbles containing self-assembled multi-walled CNT arrays, and then transform the bubble film into a CNT-graphene hybrid film by thermal annealing on a Cu substrate; PMMA serves as the carbon source for growing single to few-layer graphene among the CNT network until a continuously hybridized structure is formed. Compared to the bare (non-hybridized) CNT networks, the hybrid films exhibit improved electrical conductivity and structural integrity. Our method also enables the fabrication of a multi-walled CNT-Si solar cell, which has high power conversion efficiency, through the assembly of hybrid CNT-graphene structures.