Tough foam from tiny sheets - Materials Today
Tough, ultralight foam of atom-thick sheets can be made to any size and shape through a chemical process invented at Rice University.
In microscopic images, the foam dubbed “GO-0.5BN” looks like a nanoscale building, with floors and walls that reinforce each other. The structure consists of a pair of two-dimensional materials: floors and walls of graphene oxide that self-assemble with the assistance of hexagonal boron nitride platelets.
Tough, ultralight foam of atom-thick sheets can be made to any size and shape through a chemical process invented at Rice University.
In microscopic images, the foam dubbed “GO-0.5BN” looks like a nanoscale building, with floors and walls that reinforce each other. The structure consists of a pair of two-dimensional materials: floors and walls of graphene oxide that self-assemble with the assistance of hexagonal boron nitride platelets.
