期刊
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
卷 14, 期 5, 页码 7311-7320出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c22503
关键词
bamboo; graphene oxide; SiO2; strength; water resistance
资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51803016, U1837204, 11872132]
- Fund for Innovative Research Groups of Natural Science Foundation of Hebei Province [A2020202002]
This study developed an ultrastrong and environmentally stable bamboo composite with excellent tensile strength, flexural strength, and toughness. The composite also showed an ultralow coefficient of thermal expansion and outstanding water resistance. These characteristics make it of great significance for practical engineering applications.
Development of lightweight structural materials from fast-growing bamboos is of great significance to building a sustainable society. However, previously developed structural bamboos by delignification combined with densification would easily fail under large external loading after exposure to water due to structure collapse, severely limiting their practical applications. Here, we demonstrate an ultrastrong and exceptional environmentally stable bamboo composite consisting of a graphene oxide (GO)/bamboo core and hierarchical SiO2 protection layer. The GO/bamboo composite exhibits ultrahigh tensile strength (641.6 MPa), superb flexural strength (428.4 MPa), and excellent toughness (17.5 MJ/m(3)), which are increased by about 480, 250, and 360% compared with natural bamboo, respectively. As a result, the specific tensile strength of the GO/bamboo composite is up to 513.3 MPa.cm(3)/g due to its low density (1.25 g/cm(3)), outperforming engineering structural materials such as aluminum alloys, steels, and titanium alloys. These large improvements benefit from the well-preserved bamboo scaffold and the strong hydrogen bonds between bamboo fibers and GO nanosheets. On the other hand, the SiO2@GO/bamboo composite shows superhydrophobicity due to the construction of hierarchical SiO2 layers, which endows it with outstanding water resistance. Moreover, the bamboo composite shows an ultralow coefficient of thermal expansion (approximate to 2.3 x 10(-6) K-1), indicating its excellent dimensional stability. Considering the ultrahigh mechanical performance and outstanding environmental stability, the developed lightweight SiO2@GO/bamboo composite is hopeful to be a green and sustainable structural material for practical engineering applications.
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