Large-deformation and high-strength amorphous porous carbon nanospheres

Yang, Weizhu; Mao, Shimin; Yang, Jia; Shang, Tao; Song, Hongguang; Mabon, James; Swiech, Wacek; Vance, John R.; Yue, Zhufeng; Dillon, Shen J.; Xu, Hangxun; Xu, Baoxing

doi:10.1038/srep24187

Title: Large-deformation and high-strength amorphous porous carbon nanospheres

Journal Article · Wed Apr 13 00:00:00 EDT 2016 · Scientific Reports

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/srep24187· OSTI ID:1624828

Yang, Weizhu ^[1]; Mao, Shimin ^[2]; Yang, Jia ^[3]; Shang, Tao ^[2]; Song, Hongguang ^[3]; Mabon, James ^[2]; Swiech, Wacek ^[2]; Vance, John R. ^[2]; Yue, Zhufeng ^[4]; Dillon, Shen J. ^[2]; Xu, Hangxun ^[3]; Xu, Baoxing ^[5]

Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (United States). Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States). Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering
Univ. of Science and Technology of China, Hefei (China). Dept. of Polymer Science and Engineering. CAS Key Lab. of Soft Matter Chemistry
Northwestern Polytechnical Univ., Xi'an (China). Dept. of Engineering Mechanics
Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (United States). Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering; Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (United States). Inst. for Nanoscale and Quantum Scientific and Technological Advanced Research

Carbon is one of the most important materials extensively used in industry and our daily life. Crystalline carbon materials such as carbon nanotubes and graphene possess ultrahigh strength and toughness. In contrast, amorphous carbon is known to be very brittle and can sustain little compressive deformation. Inspired by biological shells and honeycomb-like cellular structures in nature, we introduce a class of hybrid structural designs and demonstrate that amorphous porous carbon nanospheres with a thin outer shell can simultaneously achieve high strength and sustain large deformation. The amorphous carbon nanospheres were synthesized via a low-cost, scalable and structure-controllable ultrasonic spray pyrolysis approach using energetic carbon precursors. In situ compression experiments on individual nanospheres show that the amorphous carbon nanospheres with an optimized structure can sustain beyond 50% compressive strain. Both experiments and finite element analyses reveal that the buckling deformation of the outer spherical shell dominates the improvement of strength while the collapse of inner nanoscale pores driven by twisting, rotation, buckling and bending of pore walls contributes to the large deformation.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC)

Grant/Contract Number:: FG02-05ER46217

OSTI ID:: 1624828

Journal Information:: Scientific Reports, Vol. 6, Issue 1; ISSN 2045-2322

Publisher:: Nature Publishing GroupCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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