• 专利标题:   Producing graphitic film used in electronic device, comprises mixing graphene platelets with carbon precursor polymer and liquid, removing liquid from wet film, carbonizing precursor polymer composite film and thermally treating the film.
  • 专利号:   US2015266739-A1, US9359208-B2
  • 发明人:   ZHAMU A, JANG B Z
  • 专利权人:   ZHAMU A, JANG B Z, NANOTEK INSTR INC
  • 国际专利分类:   C01B031/04, C09K005/14, H01B013/00, C01B031/00
  • 专利详细信息:   US2015266739-A1 24 Sep 2015 C01B-031/04 201566 Pages: 28 English
  • 申请详细信息:   US2015266739-A1 US999761 20 Mar 2014
  • 优先权号:   US999761

▎ 摘  要

NOVELTY - Producing (I) graphitic film, comprises: (a) mixing graphene platelets with a carbon precursor polymer and a liquid to form a slurry or suspension and forming the slurry or suspension into a wet film under the influence of an orientation-inducing stress field to align the graphene platelets on a solid substrate; (b) removing the liquid from the wet film to form a precursor polymer composite film; (c) carbonizing the precursor polymer composite film at a carbonization temperature of at least 300 degrees C to obtain a carbonized composite film; and (d) thermally treating the carbonized composite film. USE - The process is useful for producing graphitic film which is used in an electronic device as a heat-dissipating element (claimed). ADVANTAGE - The process: provides graphitic film that exhibits an inter-graphene spacing less than 0.337 nm and a mosaic spread value less than 1 (preferably less than 0.4), degree of graphitization no less than 60% (preferably less than 90%) and/or a mosaic spread value less than 0.7 (all claimed) and exhibits a combination of exceptionally high thermal conductivity, high electrical conductivity, and high mechanical strength; and significantly lowers heat treatment temperatures, shortens heat treatment time and lowers amount of energy consume, thus cost-effective. DETAILED DESCRIPTION - Producing (I) graphitic film, comprises: (a) mixing graphene platelets with a carbon precursor polymer and a liquid to form a slurry or suspension and forming the slurry or suspension into a wet film under the influence of an orientation-inducing stress field to align the graphene platelets on a solid substrate, where the graphene platelets are pristine graphene, oxidized graphene, reduced graphene oxide, fluorinated graphene, hydrogenated graphene, doped graphene and/or chemically functionalized graphene, and the carbon precursor polymer is polyimide, polyamide, polyoxadiazole, polybenzoxazole, polybenzobisoxazole, polythiazole, polybenzothiazole, polybenzobisthiazole, poly(p-phenylene vinylene), polybenzimidazole and/or polybenzobisimidazole; (b) removing the liquid from the wet film to form a precursor polymer composite film, where the graphene platelets occupy a weight fraction of 1-99% based on the total dried precursor polymer composite weight; (c) carbonizing the precursor polymer composite film at a carbonization temperature of at least 300 degrees C to obtain a carbonized composite film; and (d) thermally treating the carbonized composite film at a final graphitization temperature higher than 1500 degrees C to obtain the graphitic film. INDEPENDENT CLAIMS are also included for: (1) producing (II) graphitic film comprising (a1) mixing graphene sheets with a carbon precursor material and a liquid to form a slurry or suspension and forming the slurry or suspension into a wet film under the influence of an orientation-inducing stress field to align the graphene platelets, (b1) removing the liquid to form a graphene platelet-filled precursor composite, (c1) carbonizing the precursor composite film at a carbonization temperature of at least 500 degrees C to obtain a carbonized composite film, and step (d) as above per se, where the carbon precursor material has a carbon yield of less than 70%; (2) producing (III) graphitic film, comprising (a2) mixing expanded graphite flakes with a carbon precursor material and a liquid to form a slurry and forming the slurry into a wet film under the influence of an orientation-inducing stress field to align the expanded graphite flakes, (b2) removing the liquid to form an expanded graphite flake-filled precursor composite film where the expanded graphite flakes occupy a weight fraction of 1-99% based on the total precursor composite weight, (c2) carbonizing the precursor composite film at a carbonization temperature of at least 300 degrees C to obtain a carbonized composite film, and (d2) thermally treating the carbonized composite film at a final graphitization temperature higher than 1500 degrees C to obtain the graphitic film; and (3) the graphitic film produced by the process.