Illustration: Jie Lian, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Story highlights
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute transform 2D graphene sheet into 3D structures
- Developed a new layered structure that maintains graphene properties
- Applications in thermal management, composites and energy storage.
(2D Materials Magazine)- Researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) have taken steps towards transforming high quality 2D graphene sheets into 3D macroscopic structures. They have developed a new layered structure from graphene that addresses the challenge of achieving graphene’s extraordinary mechanical strength in its 3D form, while also maintaining its thermal and electrical properties in its 2D form.
The researchers say that this could have important implications for applications in markets such as:
- thermal management for high power electronics
- structural composites
- flexible and stretchable electrodes for energy storage
- sensors
- membranes.
Reference: “Highly thermally conductive and mechanically strong graphene fibers”
http://www.sciencemag.org/lookup/doi/10.1126/science.aaa6502
For further details on graphene see The Global Market for Graphene and 2-D Materials
