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Electrochemically triggered decoupled transport behaviors in intercalated graphite: From energy storage to enhanced electromagnetic applications

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Pyrolytic graphite (PG) with highly aligned graphene layers, present anisotropic electrical and thermal transport behavior, which is attractive in electronic, electrocatalyst and energy storage. Such pristine PG could meeting the limit of electrical conductivity (∼2.5 × 104 S·cm−1), although efforts have been made for achieving high-purity sp2 hybridized carbon. For manipulating the electrical conductivity of PG, a facile and efficient electrochemical strategy is demonstrated to enhance electrical transport ability via reversible intercalation/de-intercalation of AlCl −4 into the graphitic interlayers. With the stage evolution at different voltages, variable electrical and thermal transport behaviors could be achieved via controlling AlCl −4 concentrations in the PG because of substantial variation in the electronic density of states. Such evolution leads to decoupled electrical and thermal transport (opposite variation trend) in the in-plane and out-of-plane directions, and the in-plane electrical conductivity of the pristine PG (1.25 × 104 S·cm−1) could be massively promoted to 4.09 × 104 S·cm−1 (AlCl −4 intercalated PG), much better than the pristine bulk graphitic papers used for the electrical transport and electromagnetic shielding. The fundamental mechanism of decoupled transport feature and electrochemical strategy here could be extended into other anisotropic conductive bulks for achieving unusual behaviors.

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This study was supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (No. 2018YFB0104400), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 52074036, 51725401, and 51874019), and Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission (No. Z191100002719007).

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  1. Institute of Advanced Structure Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081, China

    Ya Chen, Kailun Zhang, Na Li, Zhiyuan Li, Haosen Chen & Weili Song

  2. Beijing Key Laboratory of Lightweight Multi-Functional Composite Materials and Structures, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081, China

    Ya Chen, Kailun Zhang, Na Li, Zhiyuan Li, Haosen Chen & Weili Song

  3. State Key Laboratory of Advanced Metallurgy, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, 100083, China

    Wei Guan & Shuqiang Jiao

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Chen, Y., Zhang, K., Li, N. et al. Electrochemically triggered decoupled transport behaviors in intercalated graphite: From energy storage to enhanced electromagnetic applications. Int J Miner Metall Mater 30, 33–43 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12613-022-2416-5

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