Ultralight, Strong, Three-Dimensional SiC Structures

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• 作者：Sakineh Chabi ; Victoria G. Rocha ; Esther Garcı́a-Tuñón ; Claudio Ferraro ; Eduardo Saiz ; Yongde Xia ; Yanqiu Zhu
• 刊名：ACS Nano
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：February 23, 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：10
• 期：2
• 页码：1871-1876
• 全文大小：476K
• ISSN：1936-086X

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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 and 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) show 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%.