Flexible, High Temperature, Planar Lighting with Large Scale Printable Nanocarbon Paper

Wenzhong Bao; Andrea D Pickel; Qing Zhang; Yanan Chen; Yonggang Yao; Jiayu Wan; Kun Kelvin Fu; Yibo Wang; Jiaqi Dai; Hongli Zhu; Dennis Drew; Michael Fuhrer; Chris Dames; Liangbing Hu

doi:10.1002/adma.201506116

Flexible, High Temperature, Planar Lighting with Large Scale Printable Nanocarbon Paper

Adv Mater. 2016 Jun;28(23):4684-91. doi: 10.1002/adma.201506116. Epub 2016 Mar 22.

Authors

Wenzhong Bao¹, Andrea D Pickel², Qing Zhang¹, Yanan Chen¹, Yonggang Yao¹, Jiayu Wan¹, Kun Kelvin Fu¹, Yibo Wang¹, Jiaqi Dai¹, Hongli Zhu¹, Dennis Drew³, Michael Fuhrer^{3

4}, Chris Dames², Liangbing Hu¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, 20740, USA.
² Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, 94720, USA.
³ Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, 20740, USA.
⁴ School of Physics, Monash University, 3800, Victoria, Australia.

PMID: 27000725
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201506116

Abstract

Highly efficient broadband thermal radiation from reduced graphene oxide (RGO) paper mixed with single-walled carbon nanotubes (CNTs) is reported. These RGO-CNT paper ribbons routinely reach 3000 K before failure, with some samples exceeding 3300 K, higher than any other carbon nanomaterial. Excellent performance is achieved, with ≈90% radiation efficiency, 200 000 on/off cycles, and stable operation for more than 50 hours.

Keywords: broadband radiation; flexible lighting; high temperature; nanocarbon paper; record high conductivity.