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- Title
Scalable Template Synthesis of Resorcinol-Formaldehyde/Graphene Oxide Composite Aerogels with Tunable Densities and Mechanical Properties.
- Authors
Wang, Xin; Lu, Lei-Lei; Yu, Zhi-Long; Xu, Xue-Wei; Zheng, Ya-Rong; Yu, Shu-Hong
- Abstract
Resorcinol-formaldehyde (RF) and graphene oxide (GO) aerogels have found a variety of applications owing to their excellent properties and remarkable flexibility. However, the macroscopic and controllable synthesis of their composite gels is still a great challenge. By using GO sheets as template skeletons and metal ions (Co2+, Ni2+, or Ca2+) as catalysts and linkers, the first low-temperature scalable strategy for the synthesis of a new kind of RF-GO composite gel with tunable densities and mechanical properties was developed. The aerogels can tolerate a strain as high as 80 % and quickly recover their original morphology after the compression has been released. Owing to their high compressibility, the gels might find applications in various areas, for example, as adsorbents for the removal of dye pollutants and in oil-spill cleanup.
- Subjects
RESORCINOL; CERAMIC materials; PHYSIOLOGICAL effects of formaldehyde; GRAPHENE; ELECTROLYSIS
- Publication
Angewandte Chemie, 2015, Vol 127, Issue 8, p2427
- ISSN
0044-8249
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/ange.201410668