Multifunctional, ultra-flyweight, synergistically assembled carbon aerogels

Haiyan Sun; Zhen Xu; Chao Gao

doi:10.1002/adma.201204576

Multifunctional, ultra-flyweight, synergistically assembled carbon aerogels

Adv Mater. 2013 May 14;25(18):2554-60. doi: 10.1002/adma.201204576. Epub 2013 Feb 18.

Authors

Haiyan Sun¹, Zhen Xu, Chao Gao

Affiliation

¹ MOE Key Laboratory of Macromolecular, Synthesis and Functionalization, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, 38 Zheda Road, Hangzhou 310027, P.R. China.

PMID: 23418099
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201204576

Abstract

All carbon aerogels (up to 1000 cm(3)) with ultralow density (down to 0.16 mg cm(-3)) and temperature-invariant (-190-900 °C) super-elasticity are fabricated by facile assembling of commercial carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and chemically-converted giant graphene sheets, on the basis of the synergistic effect between elastic CNTs ribs and giant graphene cell walls.