A seamless three-dimensional carbon nanotube graphene hybrid material

Yu Zhu, Lei Li, Chenguang Zhang, Gilberto Casillas, Zhengzong Sun, Zheng Yan, Gedeng Ruan, Zhiwei Peng, Abdul-Rahman O. Raji, Carter Kittrell, Robert H. Hauge and James M. Tour ()
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Yu Zhu: Rice University
Lei Li: Rice University
Chenguang Zhang: Rice University
Gilberto Casillas: University of Texas at San Antonio
Zhengzong Sun: Rice University
Zheng Yan: Rice University
Gedeng Ruan: Rice University
Zhiwei Peng: Rice University
Abdul-Rahman O. Raji: Rice University
Carter Kittrell: Rice University
Robert H. Hauge: Rice University
James M. Tour: Rice University

Nature Communications, 2012, vol. 3, issue 1, 1-7

Abstract: Abstract Graphene and single-walled carbon nanotubes are carbon materials that exhibit excellent electrical conductivities and large specific surface areas. Theoretical work suggested that a covalently bonded graphene/single-walled carbon nanotube hybrid material would extend those properties to three dimensions, and be useful in energy storage and nanoelectronic technologies. Here we disclose a method to bond graphene and single-walled carbon nanotubes seamlessly during the growth stage. The hybrid material exhibits a surface area >2,000 m2 g−1 with ohmic contact from the vertically aligned single-walled carbon nanotubes to the graphene. Using aberration-corrected scanning transmission electron microscopy, we observed the covalent transformation of sp2 carbon between the planar graphene and the single-walled carbon nanotubes at the atomic resolution level. These findings provide a new benchmark for understanding the three-dimensional graphene/single-walled carbon nanotube-conjoined materials.

Date: 2012
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