Journal
NANO LETTERS
Volume 12, Issue 1, Pages 486-489Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/nl203964z
Keywords
Graphene; graphene oxide; crumpling; fractal dimension; aerosol; ion mobility
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Graphene oxide (GO) in aqueous solution was aerosolized and rapidly dried to produce crumpled nanopaper-like sheets. Online size selection and aerosol mass analysis was used to determine the fractal dimension (D) of crumpled GO nanosheets as 2.54 +/- 0.04. That is identical to macroscale materials, such as crumpled balls of paper and foil. Thermal reduction of crumpled GO nanosheets did not change D, even after loss of nearly 25% of the nanosheets mass. We demonstrate that D is able to be tuned by altering solvent conditions. A 10% acetone mixture increased D to 2.68 +/- 0.02. Calculations of the confinement force show that crumpling of GO nanosheets is driven by the capillary force associated with rapid solvent loss.
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