Crystalline and Electrical Property Improvement of Filtrated, Exfoliated Graphite Sheets by an In-Plane Current and Heating Treatment

Nanoscale Research Letters

Kenji Hata¹  Azusa Oshima¹  Motoo Yumura¹  Naoyuki Matsumoto¹  Don N. Futaba¹ 

[1] National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Central 5, 1-1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba, 305-8565, Ibaraki, Japan;

关键词: Exfoliated graphite sheet;    Current treatment;    Heat treatment;    Electrical conductivity;    Defect healing;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s11671-020-03408-8

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

We report an approach to fabricate high conductivity graphite sheets based on a heat-and-current treatment of filtrated, exfoliated graphite flakes. This treatment combines heating (~ 900 °C) and in-plane electrical current flow (550 A·cm−2) to improve electrical conductivity through the reduction of crystalline defects. This process was shown to require only a 1-min treatment time, which resulted in a 2.1-fold increase in electrical conductivity (from 1088 ± 72 to 2275 ± 50 S·cm−1). Structural characterization by Raman spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction indicated that the improvement electrical conductivity originated from a 30-fold improvement in the crystallinity (Raman G/D ratio increase from 2.8 to 85.3) with no other observable structural transformations. Significantly, this treatment was found to act uniformly across a macroscopic (10 mm) sheet surface indicating it is on the development of applications, such as electrodes for energy generation and storage and electromagnetic shielding, as well as on the potential for the development of large-scale treatment technologies.

【 授权许可】

CC BY