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Wrinkling modes of graphene oxide assembled on curved surfaces

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Assembling two-dimensional (2D) sheets into macroscopic three-dimensional (3D) forms has created a promising material family with rich functionalities. Multiscale wrinkles are intrinsic features of 2D sheets in their 3D assembles. Therefore, the precise wrinkling modulation optimizes the transition of outstanding properties of 2D sheets to expected performances of assembled materials and dominates their fabrication process. The wrinkling evolution of 2D sheets assembling onto flat surfaces has been extensively understood, however, the wrinkling behaviors on the more generally curved surface still remain unclear. Here, we investigate the wrinkling behaviors of graphene oxide sheets assembled onto curved surfaces and reveal the selection rule of wrinkling modes that determined by the curvature mismatch between 2D sheets and target surfaces. We uncover that three wrinkling modes including isotropic cracked land, labyrinth, and anisotropic curtain phases, respectively emerge on flat, spherical, and cylindrical surfaces. A favorable description paradigm is offered to quantitatively measure the complex wrinkling patterns and assess the curvature mismatch constraint underlying the wrinkling mode selection. This research provides a general and quantitative description framework of wrinkling modulation of 2D materials such as high performance graphene fibers, and guides the precise fabrication of particles and functional coatings.

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Acknowledgments

We thank the technical support by the Core Facilities, State Key Laboratory of modern optical instruments, Zhejiang University. This work is financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 52122301, 51973191, 52090030, and 51533008), Hundred Talents Program of Zhejiang University (No. 188020*194231701/113), Key Research and Development Plan of Zhejiang Province (No. 2018C01049), Shanxi-Zheda Institute of New Materials and Chemical Engineering (No. 2012SZ-FR004), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Nos. K20200060, 2017QNA4036, and 2017XZZX001-04).

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  1. MOE Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Synthesis and Functionalization, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Key Laboratory of Adsorption and Separation Materials & Technologies of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, China

    Kaiwen Li, Lidan Wang, Jiaqing Wang, Jiahao Lin, Shiyu Luo, Li Peng, Wenzhang Fang, Yingjun Liu, Chao Gao & Zhen Xu

  2. State Key Laboratory of Bio-Fibers and Eco-Textiles, Collaborative Innovation Center of Marine Biobased Fiber and Ecological Textile Technology, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Qingdao University, Qingdao, 266071, China

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    Chuanwei Zhang & Ziliang Wu

  4. Shanxi-Zheda Institute of Advanced Materials and Chemical Engineering, Taiyuan, 030000, China

    Yingjun Liu

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Li, K., Han, Z., Wang, L. et al. Wrinkling modes of graphene oxide assembled on curved surfaces. Nano Res. 16, 1801–1809 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-022-4895-0

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