TY - JOUR
T1 - Recent progress in the growth and applications of graphene as a smart material
T2 - A review
AU - Aïssa, Brahim
AU - Memon, Nasir K.
AU - Ali, Adnan
AU - Khraisheh, Marwan K.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 Aïssa, Memon, Ali and Khraisheh.
PY - 2015/9/22
Y1 - 2015/9/22
N2 - Innovative breakthroughs in fundamental research and industrial applications of graphene material have made its mass and low-cost production as a necessary step toward its real world applications. This one-atom thick crystal of carbon, gathers a set of unique physico-chemical properties, ranging from its extreme mechanical behavior to its exceptional electrical and thermal conductivities, which are making graphene as a serious alternative to replace many conventional materials for various applications. In this review paper, we highlight the most important experimental results on the synthesis of graphene material, its emerging properties with reference to its smart applications. We discuss the possibility to successfully integrating graphene directly into device, enabling thereby the realization of a wide range of applications, including actuation, photovoltaic, thermoelectricity, shape memory, self-healing, electrorheology, and space missions. The future outlook of graphene is also considered and discussed.
AB - Innovative breakthroughs in fundamental research and industrial applications of graphene material have made its mass and low-cost production as a necessary step toward its real world applications. This one-atom thick crystal of carbon, gathers a set of unique physico-chemical properties, ranging from its extreme mechanical behavior to its exceptional electrical and thermal conductivities, which are making graphene as a serious alternative to replace many conventional materials for various applications. In this review paper, we highlight the most important experimental results on the synthesis of graphene material, its emerging properties with reference to its smart applications. We discuss the possibility to successfully integrating graphene directly into device, enabling thereby the realization of a wide range of applications, including actuation, photovoltaic, thermoelectricity, shape memory, self-healing, electrorheology, and space missions. The future outlook of graphene is also considered and discussed.
KW - Gas-phase growth
KW - Graphene material
KW - Smart applications
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84980007681&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3389/fmats.2015.00058
DO - 10.3389/fmats.2015.00058
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:84980007681
SN - 2296-8016
VL - 2
JO - Frontiers in Materials
JF - Frontiers in Materials
M1 - 58
ER -