One of the barriers to using graphene at a commercial scale could be overcome using a method demonstrated by researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Graphene, a material stronger and stiffer than carbon fiber, has enormous commercial potential but has been impractical to employ on a large scale, with researchers limited to using small flakes of the material.
Now, using chemical vapor deposition, a team led by ORNL’s Ivan Vlassiouk has fabricated polymer composites containing 2-inch-by-2-inch sheets of the one-atom thick hexagonally arranged carbon atoms.
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Ref: Strong and Electrically Conductive Graphene-Based Composite Fibers and Laminates. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces (2015) | DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b01367
Researchers finally produce graphene on a large-scale... "2-inch-by-2-inch sheets"
