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  • Macroscopic assembly of flexible and strong green graphene fibres

Bakhtriari, R, Ghobadi, S, Gulluoglu, E N, Isikel Sanli, L, Alkan Gursel, S and Ozden Yenigun, Elif, 2017, Journal Article, Macroscopic assembly of flexible and strong green graphene fibres rsc advances, 7 (43). pp. 26735-26744. ISSN 2046-2069

Abstract or Description:

Graphene fibres have great potential in future wearable electronics due to their promising thermal and electrical properties. However, fibre brittleness limits their implementation and researchers are still seeking easily scalable and eco-friendly production methods. Here we propose a green and continuous wet-spinning assembly approach to continuously spin flexible graphene oxide (GO) fibres. Highly stable aqueous GO suspensions up to 40 mg mL−1 are achieved and GO fibres are spun from highly oriented liquid crystals through a customized continuous fibre production line. As-spun GO fibres with specific ultimate tensile strength of 7 N/tex show strain to failure (%) of 10%; subsequent NaBH4 chemical reduction gives graphene fibres with electrical conductivity of 214 S cm−1. The scalable production presented here facilitates flexible, strong and electrically conductive graphene fibres, which have emerged as promising graphene based electronic textiles and sensors.

Official URL: http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2017...
Subjects: Other > Technologies > J400 Polymers and Textiles
Funders: TUBITAK
Identification Number or DOI: 10.1039/C7RA03975A
Date Deposited: 12 Dec 2017 16:57
Last Modified: 21 Sep 2020 21:04
URI: https://researchonline.rca.ac.uk/id/eprint/2997
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