Large flake graphene oxide fibers with unconventional 100% knot efficiency and highly aligned small flake graphene oxide fibers.

Two types of graphene oxide fibers are spun from high concentration aqueous dopes. Fibers extruded from large flake graphene oxide dope without drawing show unconventional 100% knot efficiency. Fibers spun from small sized graphene oxide dope with stable and continuous drawing yield in good intrinsic alignment with a record high tensile modulus of 47 GPa.

Carbon nanotube and graphene nanoribbon-coated conductive Kevlar fibers.

Conductive carbon material-coated Kevlar fibers were fabricated through layer-by-layer spray coating. Polyurethane was used as the interlayer between the Kevlar fiber and carbon materials to bind the carbon materials to the Kevlar fiber. Strongly adhering single-walled carbon nanotube coatings yielded a durable conductivity of 65 S/cm without significant mechanical degradation.

A unique reaction pathway of fluorine-substituted ethyl groups on Cu(111): successive alpha,alpha-fluoride elimination.

Fluorine-substituted ethyl groups on Cu(111) were generated by thermal scission of the C-I bond in the adsorbed C2F5I. Temperature-programmed reaction spectrometry observed a novel pathway resulting in the evolution of C4F6 above 400 K. Among the various isomers, this product was identified as hexafluro-2-butyne.