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Complementary Chemical Vapor Deposition Fabrication for Large‐Area Uniform Graphene Glass Fiber Fabric

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The lightweight, flexible, high‐performance electrothermal material is in high demand in object thermal management. Graphene glass fiber fabric (GGFF) is characterized by excellent electrical conductivity, light weight, and high flexibility,… Click to show full abstract

The lightweight, flexible, high‐performance electrothermal material is in high demand in object thermal management. Graphene glass fiber fabric (GGFF) is characterized by excellent electrical conductivity, light weight, and high flexibility, showing superiorities as an electrothermal material. However, the traditional single‐carbon‐precursor chemical vapor deposition (CVD) graphene growth strategy commonly suffers from the severe thickness nonuniformity of the large‐sized graphene film along the gas‐flowing direction. Herein, a complementary CVD graphene growth strategy based on the simultaneous introduction of high‐ and low‐decomposition‐energy‐barrier mixed carbon precursors is developed. In this way, the large‐area uniform GGFF with a dramatically decreased nonuniformity coefficient is fabricated (0.260 in 40 cm × 4 cm). GGFF‐based heater presents a widely tunable temperature range (20–170 °C) at low working voltage (<10 V) and uniform large‐area heating temperature (171.4 ± 3.6 °C in 20 cm × 15 cm), which realizes remarkable anti/deicing performances under the low energy consumption (fast ice melting rate of 79 s mm−1 under a low energy consumption of 0.066 kWh mm−1 m−2). The large‐area uniform GGFF possesses substantial advantages for applications in thermal management, and the complementary CVD fabrication strategy shows reliable scalability and universality, which can be extended to the synthesis of various materials.

Keywords: graphene; glass fiber; graphene glass; large area; area uniform

Journal Title: Small Methods
Year Published: 2022

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