Stiffening of graphene oxide films by soft porous sheets

Lily Mao; Hun Park; Rafael A. Soler-Crespo; Horacio D. Espinosa; Tae Hee Han; SonBinh T. Nguyen; Jiaxing Huang

doi:10.1038/s41467-019-11609-8

Nature Communications (Aug 2019)

Stiffening of graphene oxide films by soft porous sheets

Lily Mao,
Hun Park,
Rafael A. Soler-Crespo,
Horacio D. Espinosa,
Tae Hee Han,
SonBinh T. Nguyen,
Jiaxing Huang

Affiliations

Lily Mao: Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University
Hun Park: Department of Organic and Nano Engineering, Hanyang University
Rafael A. Soler-Crespo: Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Program, Northwestern University
Horacio D. Espinosa: Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Program, Northwestern University
Tae Hee Han: Department of Organic and Nano Engineering, Hanyang University
SonBinh T. Nguyen: Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University
Jiaxing Huang: Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11609-8
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Graphene oxide sheets have been used as a model system to study how the mechanical properties of individual 2D building blocks scale to their bulk form. Here the authors show that the modulus of multilayer graphene oxide films can be enhanced if some of the sheets are weakened by introducing in-plane porosity.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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