Flexible, air-stable, high-performance heaters based on nanoscale thick graphite films : Sussex Research Online

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Deokar, Geetanjali, Reguig, Abdeldjalil, Tripathi, Manoj, Buttner, Ulrich, Fina, Alberto, Dalton, Alan B and Costa, Pedro M F J (2022) Flexible, air-stable, high-performance heaters based on nanoscale thick graphite films. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces. ISSN 1944-8244

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.1c23803

Abstract

Graphite sheets are known to exhibit remarkable performance in applications such as heating panels and critical elements of thermal management systems. Industrial-scale production of graphite films relies on high-temperature treatment of polymers or calendering of graphite flakes; however, these methods are limited to obtaining micrometer-scale thicknesses. Herein, we report the fabrication of a flexible and power-efficient cm2-scaled heater based on a polycrystalline nanoscale-thick graphite film (NGF, ∼100 nm thick) grown by chemical vapor deposition. The stability of these NGF heaters (operational in air over the range 30–300 °C) is demonstrated by a 12-day continuous heating test, at 215 °C. The NGF exhibits a fast switching response and attains a steady peak temperature of 300 °C at a driving bias of 7.8 V (power density of 1.1 W/cm2). This excellent heating performance is attributed to the structural characteristics of the NGF, which contains well-distributed wrinkles and micrometer-wide few-layer graphene domains (characterized using conductive imaging and finite element methods, respectively). The efficiency and flexibility of the NGF device are exemplified by externally heating a 2000 μm-thick Pyrex glass vial and bringing 5 mL of water to a temperature of 96 °C (at 2.4 W/cm2). Overall, the NGF could become an excellent active material for ultrathin, flexible, and sustainable heating panels that operate at low power.

Item Type:	Article
Schools and Departments:	School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences > Physics and Astronomy
Research Centres and Groups:	Materials Physics Group
SWORD Depositor:	Mx Elements Account
Depositing User:	Mx Elements Account
Date Deposited:	28 Mar 2022 16:58
Last Modified:	12 Apr 2022 09:30
URI:	http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/105072

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