Graphene Oxide Paper
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Graphene oxide paper or graphite oxide paper is a composite material
fabricated from graphite oxide.
The material has exceptional stiffness
and strength
, due to the intrinsic strength of the two-dimensional graphene
backbone and to its interwoven layer structure which distributes loads.
The starting material is water-dispersed graphene oxide flakes, which typically contain a single graphene layer. These flakes may be chemically bonded
, leading to the development of additional new materials. Like the starting material, graphene oxide paper is an electrical insulator; however, it may be possible to tune this property, making the paper a conductor
or semiconductor
, without sacrificing its mechanical properties.
Detailed studies of graphite oxide paper by V. Kohlschütter and P. Haenni date back to 1918.
Composite material
Composite materials, often shortened to composites or called composition materials, are engineered or naturally occurring materials made from two or more constituent materials with significantly different physical or chemical properties which remain separate and distinct at the macroscopic or...
fabricated from graphite oxide.
The material has exceptional stiffness
Stiffness
Stiffness is the resistance of an elastic body to deformation by an applied force along a given degree of freedom when a set of loading points and boundary conditions are prescribed on the elastic body.-Calculations:...
and strength
Strength of materials
In materials science, the strength of a material is its ability to withstand an applied stress without failure. The applied stress may be tensile, compressive, or shear. Strength of materials is a subject which deals with loads, deformations and the forces acting on a material. A load applied to a...
, due to the intrinsic strength of the two-dimensional graphene
Graphene
Graphene is an allotrope of carbon, whose structure is one-atom-thick planar sheets of sp2-bonded carbon atoms that are densely packed in a honeycomb crystal lattice. The term graphene was coined as a combination of graphite and the suffix -ene by Hanns-Peter Boehm, who described single-layer...
backbone and to its interwoven layer structure which distributes loads.
The starting material is water-dispersed graphene oxide flakes, which typically contain a single graphene layer. These flakes may be chemically bonded
Chemical bond
A chemical bond is an attraction between atoms that allows the formation of chemical substances that contain two or more atoms. The bond is caused by the electromagnetic force attraction between opposite charges, either between electrons and nuclei, or as the result of a dipole attraction...
, leading to the development of additional new materials. Like the starting material, graphene oxide paper is an electrical insulator; however, it may be possible to tune this property, making the paper a conductor
Electrical conductor
In physics and electrical engineering, a conductor is a material which contains movable electric charges. In metallic conductors such as copper or aluminum, the movable charged particles are electrons...
or semiconductor
Semiconductor
A semiconductor is a material with electrical conductivity due to electron flow intermediate in magnitude between that of a conductor and an insulator. This means a conductivity roughly in the range of 103 to 10−8 siemens per centimeter...
, without sacrificing its mechanical properties.
Detailed studies of graphite oxide paper by V. Kohlschütter and P. Haenni date back to 1918.