Journal
CARBON
Volume 142, Issue -, Pages 230-237Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2018.10.041
Keywords
Graphene fibers; Joule heating; Defect healing; Graphene oxides
Funding
- BM Holdings ONE
- Basic Science Research Program - Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning, Korea [NRF-2017R1A2B4010771]
- National Research Foundation of Korea [NRF-2016R1A6A1A03013422]
- National Cancer Research Institute Center for Multi-Dimensional Directed Nanoscale Assembly [2015R1A3A2033061]
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Joule heating can instantaneously achieve high temperatures (>2000 degrees C) by applying electrical current on a resistive material. This ohmic heating by the passage of an electric current through a conducting domain may effectively heal the defective sites (i.e., vacancies, structural defects, and sp(3) oxygen groups) of graphene oxide (GO) and revert them into sp(2) domains. Indeed, the direction of electric field controls the texture of GO with preferential alignment, which significantly affects the transport properties along the fiber axis. Here we present electrical current-induced manipulation of resistive domain (i.e. Joule heating) as an effective healing method for the defect sites in GO fibers (GOFs). Systematic control of input current restores the sp(2) lattice structures within fibers in a well-controlled manner. Structural evolution mechanism is proposed for multilayer stacked graphitic structures as well as graphene sheet plane under the reduction process. This defect-healing principle is rapid, environmentally benign and energy efficient, compared to other defect restoration methods, and yields tailored-aligned fibers with a high current-carrying capability and facile charge transport, which is potentially beneficial for power cables and other relevant applications. (C) 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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