• 文献标题:   A Plesiohedral Cellular Network of Graphene Bubbles for Ultralight, Strong, and Superelastic Materials
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   YEO SJ, OH MJ, JUN HM, LEE M, BAE JG, KIM Y, PARK KJ, LEE S, LEE D, WEON BM, LEE WB, KWON SJ, YOO PJ
  • 作者关键词:   closedcellular structure, graphene, lightweight material, microsolid bubble, plesiohedra
  • 出版物名称:   ADVANCED MATERIALS
  • ISSN:   0935-9648 EI 1521-4095
  • 通讯作者地址:   Korea Inst Sci Technol
  • 被引频次:   11
  • DOI:   10.1002/adma.201802997
  • 出版年:   2018

▎ 摘  要

Advanced materials with low density and high strength impose transformative impacts in the construction, aerospace, and automobile industries. These materials can be realized by assembling well-designed modular building units (BUs) into interconnected structures. This study uses a hierarchical design strategy to demonstrate a new class of carbon-based, ultralight, strong, and even superelastic closed-cellular network structures. Here, the BUs are prepared by a multiscale design approach starting from the controlled synthesis of functionalized graphene oxide nanosheets at the molecular- and nanoscale, leading to the microfluidic fabrication of spherical solid-shelled bubbles at the microscale. Then, bubbles are strategically assembled into centimeter-scale 3D structures. Subsequently, these structures are transformed into self-interconnected and structurally reinforced closed-cellular network structures with plesiohedral cellular units through post-treatment, resulting in the generation of 3D graphene lattices with rhombic dodecahedral honeycomb structure at the centimeter-scale. The 3D graphene suprastructure concurrently exhibits the Young's modulus above 300 kPa while retaining a light density of 7.7 mg cm(-3) and sustaining the elasticity against up to 87% of the compressive strain benefiting from efficient stress dissipation through the complete space-filling closed-cellular network. The method of fabricating the 3D graphene closed-cellular structure opens a new pathway for designing lightweight, strong, and superelastic materials.