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Adv Mater. 2015 Mar 11;27(10):1688-93. doi: 10.1002/adma.201405046. Epub 2015 Jan 21.

Printing in three dimensions with graphene.

Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)

Esther García-Tuñon, Suelen Barg, Jaime Franco, Robert Bell, Salvador Eslava, Eleonora D'Elia, Robert Christopher Maher, Francisco Guitian, Eduardo Saiz

Affiliations

  1. Centre for Advanced Structural Ceramics, Department of Materials, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2BP, UK.

PMID: 25605024 DOI: 10.1002/adma.201405046

Abstract

Responsive graphene oxide sheets form non-covalent networks with optimum rheological properties for 3D printing. These networks have shear thinning behavior and sufficiently high elastic shear modulus (G') to build self-supporting 3D structures by direct write assembly. Drying and thermal reduction leads to ultra-light graphene-only structures with restored conductivity and elastomeric behavior.

© 2015 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.

Keywords: 3D printing; functionalization; graphene; responsive polymers

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