Kirkendall Effect in Creating Three-Dimensional Metal Catalysts for Hierarchically Porous Ultrathin Graphite with Unique Properties
CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS(2017)
Abstract
In this work, we report an innovative mechanism, the Kirkendall effect, in creating three-dimensional (3D) microporous catalysts with tunable pore sizes for the growth of hierarchic ultrathin graphite foams (HP-UGFs) with unique properties. Employing the Kirkendall effect is one of the first demonstrated for fabricating 3D porous catalysts, where tunable pores of 1.9-8.3 mu m are created on 3D interconnected struts (similar to 400 mu m). With the catalysts, we readily synthesized freestanding HP-UGFs that offer higher crystallinity and electric conductivity, larger surface area, as well as enhanced electric invariance to strains compared to those of conventional ultrathin graphite foams. A gauge factor as low as similar to 10 at a strain as high as 80% is achieved owing to the unique porous corrugations created on the microstruts of the HP-UGFs. This work may inspire a new paradigm in designing and synthesizing a new type of 3D porous architecture made of 2D materials with controlled local corrugations, which could greatly benefit flexible electronics.
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porous ultrathin graphite,three-dimensional
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