• 文献标题:   Magnetocaloric effects in a freestanding and flexible graphene-based superlattice synthesized with a spatially confined reaction
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   ZHU H, XIAO C, CHENG H, GROTE F, ZHANG XD, YAO T, LI Z, WANG CM, WEI SQ, LEI Y, XIE Y
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  • 出版物名称:   NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
  • ISSN:   2041-1723
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Sci Technol China
  • 被引频次:   60
  • DOI:   10.1038/ncomms4960
  • 出版年:   2014

▎ 摘  要

Superlattices have attracted great interest because of their tailorable electronic properties at the interface. However, the lack of an efficient and low-cost synthetic method represents a huge challenge to implement superlattices into practical applications. Herein, we report a space-confined nanoreactor strategy to synthesize flexible freestanding graphene-based superlattice nanosheets, which consist of alternately intercalated monolayered metal-oxide frameworks and graphene. Taking vanadium oxide as an example, clear-cut evidences in extended X-ray absorption fine structure, high-resolution transmission electron microscopy and infrared spectra have confirmed that the vanadium oxide frameworks in the superlattice nanosheets show high symmetry derived from the space-confinement and electron-donor effect of graphene layers, which enable the superlattice nanosheets to show emerging magnetocaloric effect. Undoubtedly, this freestanding and flexible superlattice synthesized from a low-cost and scalable method avoids complex transferring processes from growth substrates for final applications and thus should be beneficial to a wide variety of functionalized devices.