Fabrication of highly-aligned, conductive, and strong graphene papers using ultralarge graphene oxide sheets

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 10708-10719

  Lin, Xiuyi ^a   Shen, Xi ^a   Zheng, Qingbin ^a   Yousefi, Nariman ^a   Ye, Lin ^b   Mai, Yiu Wing ^b   Kim, Jang Kyo ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

alignment; electrical conductivity; GO paper; molecular dynamics simulation; tensile properties; ultralarge graphene

Indexed keywords

BULK PROPERTIES; CARBOXYL GROUPS; DEGREE OF DISPERSION; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTION; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; FOURIER TRANSFORM ANALYSIS; GRAPHENE OXIDES; INTENSITY RATIO; INTERSHEET INTERACTION; MICRO-SCALES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; MULTISCALES; ON THE GO; SELF ALIGNMENT; STRESS TRANSFER; STRUCTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; THICKNESS DIRECTION; YOUNG'S MODULUS;

ALIGNMENT; AUTOMOBILE MANUFACTURE; ELASTIC MODULI; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; GRAPHENE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; TENSILE PROPERTIES;

PAPER;

EID: 84871597303     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn303904z     Document Type: Article

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