dc.contributor.author | Chabi, Sakineh | |
dc.contributor.author | Rocha, VG | |
dc.contributor.author | Garcı́a-Tunon, E | |
dc.contributor.author | Ferraro, C | |
dc.contributor.author | Saiz, E. | |
dc.contributor.author | Xia, Yongde | |
dc.contributor.author | Zhu, Yanqiu | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-11-20T14:52:25Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2015-11-19 | |
dc.description.abstract | Ultralight and strong three-dimensional (3D) silicon carbide (SiC) structures have been generated by the carbothermal reduction of SiO with a graphene foam (GF). The resulting SiC foams have an average height of 2 mm, and density ranging between 9-17 mg cm-3. They are the lightest reported SiC structures. They consist of hollow struts made from ultrathin SiC flakes, and long 1D SiC nanowires growing from the trusses, edges and defect sites between layers. AFM results revealed an average flake thickness of 2-3 nm and lateral size of 2 µm. In-situ compression tests in the scanning electron microscope (SEM) have shown that, compared with most of the existing lightweight foams, the present 3D SiC exhibited superior compression strengths and significant recovery after compression strains of about 70%. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | University of Exeter | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | European Commission funding under the 7th Framework Programme | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | EPSRC | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Publication online: November 18, 2015 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1021/acsnano.5b05533 | |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | 289958 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | EP/K01658X/1 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/18719 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | American Chemical Society | en_GB |
dc.relation.url | http://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsnano.5b05533 | en_GB |
dc.rights.embargoreason | Publisher's policy | en_GB |
dc.rights | Copyright © 2015 American Chemical Society | en_GB |
dc.subject | recoverable ceramic | en_GB |
dc.subject | Ultralight | en_GB |
dc.subject | 2D SiC | en_GB |
dc.subject | three dimensional | en_GB |
dc.subject | Silicon carbide | en_GB |
dc.title | Ultralight, Strong Three Dimensional SiC Structures | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.identifier.issn | 1936-086X | |
dc.description | Article | en_GB |
dc.description | This document is the Accepted Manuscript version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in ACS Nano copyright © 2015 American Chemical Society after peer review and technical editing by the publisher. To access the final edited and published work see http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.5b05533 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | ACS Nano | en_GB |