Controlled crumpling of graphene oxide films for tunable optical transmittance

Abhay V Thomas; Brandon C Andow; Shravan Suresh; Osman Eksik; Jie Yin; Anna H Dyson; Nikhil Koratkar

doi:10.1002/adma.201405821

Controlled crumpling of graphene oxide films for tunable optical transmittance

Adv Mater. 2015 Jun 3;27(21):3256-65. doi: 10.1002/adma.201405821. Epub 2015 Apr 20.

Authors

Abhay V Thomas¹, Brandon C Andow^{2

3}, Shravan Suresh¹, Osman Eksik¹, Jie Yin⁴, Anna H Dyson^{2

3}, Nikhil Koratkar¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 110 8th Street, Troy, NY, 12180, USA.
² Center for Architecture Science and Ecology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 14 Wall Street, 24th Floor, New York, NY, 10005, USA.
³ Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 110 8th Street, Troy, NY, 12180, USA.
⁴ Department of Mechanical Engineering, Temple University, 1947 N 12th Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19122, USA.

PMID: 25899342
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201405821

Abstract

The delamination buckling approach provides a facile means to dynamically control the optical transmittance of extremely flexible and stretchable graphene oxide coatings with fast response time. Such graphene oxide coatings can be deposited by scalable solution-processing methods for potential applications in dynamic glazing.

Keywords: delamination buckling; dynamic glazing; graphene oxide; optical transmittance; smart windows.