Three-dimensionally bonded spongy graphene material with super compressive elasticity and near-zero Poisson's ratio

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Wu, Yingpeng ^a   Yi, Ningbo ^a   Huang, Lu ^a   Zhang, Tengfei ^a   Fang, Shaoli ^b   Chang, Huicong ^a   Li, Na ^a,b   Oh, Jiyoung ^b   Lee, Jae Ah ^b,c   Kozlov, Mikhail ^b   Chipara, Alin C ^d   Terrones, Humberto ^e   Xiao, Peishuang ^a   Long, Guankui ^a   Huang, Yi ^a   Zhang, Fan ^a   Zhang, Long ^a   Lepró, Xavier ^b   Haines, Carter ^b   Lima, Márcio Dias ^b   Lopez, Nestor Perea ^e   Rajukumar, Lakshmy P ^e   Elias, Ana L ^e   Feng, Simin ^e   Kim, Seon Jeong ^c   Narayanan, N T ^d   Ajayan, Pulickel M ^d   Terrones, Mauricio ^e   Aliev, Ali ^b   Chu, Pengfei ^f   Zhang, Zhong ^f   Baughman, Ray H ^b   Chen, Yongsheng ^a   more..

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^c Hanyang University   (South Korea)

^d Rice University   (United States)

^e PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f NATIONAL CENTER FOR NANOSCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAPHENE; GRAPHENE SPONGE; RUBBER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABSORPTION; CARBON; ELASTICITY; POISSON RATIO;

ADSORPTION KINETICS; ARTICLE; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; CROSS LINKING; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ENERGY FILTERED TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENTHALPY; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; THERMOSTABILITY; VISCOELASTICITY;

EID: 84923100727     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms7141     Document Type: Article

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