High Oxidation Resistance of CVD Graphene-Reinforced Copper Matrix Composites

Mingliang Wu; Baosen Hou; Shengcheng Shu; Ao Li; Qi Geng; He Li; Yumeng Shi; Minghui Yang; Shiyu Du; Jun-Qiang Wang; Shuzhi Liao; Nan Jiang; Dan Dai; Cheng-Te Lin

doi:10.3390/nano9040498

High Oxidation Resistance of CVD Graphene-Reinforced Copper Matrix Composites

Nanomaterials (Basel). 2019 Apr 1;9(4):498. doi: 10.3390/nano9040498.

Authors

Mingliang Wu^{1

2}, Baosen Hou³, Shengcheng Shu^{4

5}, Ao Li⁶, Qi Geng⁷, He Li⁸, Yumeng Shi⁹, Minghui Yang¹⁰, Shiyu Du¹¹, Jun-Qiang Wang^{12

13}, Shuzhi Liao¹⁴, Nan Jiang^{15

16}, Dan Dai¹⁷, Cheng-Te Lin^{18

19}

Affiliations

¹ College of Physics and Information Science, Key Laboratory of Low-dimensional Quantum Structures and Quantum Control of the Ministry of Education, Synergetic Innovation Center for Quantum Effects and Applications, Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410081, China. wumingliang@nimte.ac.cn.
² Key Laboratory of Marine Materials and Related Technologies, Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Marine Materials and Protective Technologies, Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ningbo 315201, China. wumingliang@nimte.ac.cn.
³ Key Laboratory of Marine Materials and Related Technologies, Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Marine Materials and Protective Technologies, Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ningbo 315201, China. 15184448276@163.com.
⁴ Key Laboratory of Marine Materials and Related Technologies, Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Marine Materials and Protective Technologies, Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ningbo 315201, China. shushengcheng@nimte.ac.cn.
⁵ Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China. shushengcheng@nimte.ac.cn.
⁶ Key Laboratory of Marine Materials and Related Technologies, Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Marine Materials and Protective Technologies, Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ningbo 315201, China. liao@nimte.ac.cn.
⁷ Key Laboratory of Marine Materials and Related Technologies, Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Marine Materials and Protective Technologies, Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ningbo 315201, China. gengqi@nimte.ac.cn.
⁸ Key Laboratory of Marine Materials and Related Technologies, Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Marine Materials and Protective Technologies, Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ningbo 315201, China. lihe@nimte.ac.cn.
⁹ International Collaborative Laboratory of 2D Materials for Optoelectronics Science and Technology of Ministry of Education, College of Optoelectronic Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China. yumeng.shi@szu.edu.cn.
¹⁰ Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ningbo 315201, China. myang@nimte.ac.cn.
¹¹ Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ningbo 315201, China. dushiyu@nimte.ac.cn.
¹² Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China. jqwang@nimte.ac.cn.
¹³ Key Laboratory of Magnetic Materials and Devices & Zhejiang Province Key Laboratory of Magnetic Materials and Application Technology, Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology & Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ningbo 315201, China. jqwang@nimte.ac.cn.
¹⁴ College of Physics and Information Science, Key Laboratory of Low-dimensional Quantum Structures and Quantum Control of the Ministry of Education, Synergetic Innovation Center for Quantum Effects and Applications, Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410081, China. liaosz@hunnu.edu.cn.
¹⁵ Key Laboratory of Marine Materials and Related Technologies, Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Marine Materials and Protective Technologies, Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ningbo 315201, China. jiangnan@nimte.ac.cn.
¹⁶ Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China. jiangnan@nimte.ac.cn.
¹⁷ Key Laboratory of Marine Materials and Related Technologies, Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Marine Materials and Protective Technologies, Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ningbo 315201, China. daidan@nimte.ac.cn.
¹⁸ Key Laboratory of Marine Materials and Related Technologies, Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Marine Materials and Protective Technologies, Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ningbo 315201, China. linzhengde@nimte.ac.cn.
¹⁹ Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China. linzhengde@nimte.ac.cn.

Abstract

Copper-based materials are common industrial products which have been broadly applied to the fields of powder metallurgy, electrical contact, and heat exchangers, etc. However, the ease of surface oxidation limits the durability and effectiveness of copper-based components. Here, we have developed a powder metallurgy process to fabricate graphene/copper composites using copper powders which were first deposited with graphene layers by thermal chemical vapor deposition (CVD). The graphene/copper composites embedded with an interconnected graphene network was then able to be obtained by vacuum hot-pressing. After thermal oxidation (up to 220 °C) in humid air for several hours, we found that the degree of surface oxidation of our samples was much less than that of their pure Cu counterpart and our samples produced a much smaller increase of interfacial contact resistance when used as electrical contact materials. As a result, our graphene/copper composites showed a significant enhancement of oxidation resistance ability (≈5.6 times) compared to their pure Cu counterpart, thus offering potential applications as novel electrical contact materials.

Keywords: CVD graphene; electrical contact materials; graphene/copper composites; oxidation resistance.

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