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Graphene, a two-dimensional material with extraordinary electrical, thermal, and elastic performance, is a potential candidate for future technologies. However, the superior properties of graphene have not yet been realized for graphenederived macroscopic structures such as graphene fibers. In this study, we systematically investigated the temperature (T)-dependent transport and thermoelectric properties of graphene fiber, including the thermal conductivity (λ), electrical conductivity (σ), and Seebeck coefficient (S). λ increases from 45.8 to 149.7 W·m–1·K–1 and then decreases as T increases from 80 to 290 K, indicating the boundary-scattering and three-phonon Umklapp scattering processes. σ increases with T from 7.1 × 104 to 1.18 × 105 S·m–1, which can be best explained by the hopping mechanism. S ranges from–3.9 to 0.8 μV·K–1 and undergoes a sign transition at approximately 100 K.
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Systematic characterization of transport and thermoelectric properties of a macroscopic graphene fiber
), Chao Gao2(
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Graphene, a two-dimensional material with extraordinary electrical, thermal, and elastic performance, is a potential candidate for future technologies. However, the superior properties of graphene have not yet been realized for graphenederived macroscopic structures such as graphene fibers. In this study, we systematically investigated the temperature (T)-dependent transport and thermoelectric properties of graphene fiber, including the thermal conductivity (λ), electrical conductivity (σ), and Seebeck coefficient (S). λ increases from 45.8 to 149.7 W·m–1·K–1 and then decreases as T increases from 80 to 290 K, indicating the boundary-scattering and three-phonon Umklapp scattering processes. σ increases with T from 7.1 × 104 to 1.18 × 105 S·m–1, which can be best explained by the hopping mechanism. S ranges from–3.9 to 0.8 μV·K–1 and undergoes a sign transition at approximately 100 K.
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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos.51406236, 51576105, 51327001, 51336009, 51636002, 21325417 and 51533008), the Science Foundation of China University of Petroleum, Beijing (Nos.2462013YJRC027, and 2462015YQ0402), the Science Fund for Creative Research Groups (No. 51321002), and Tsinghua University Initiative Scientific Research Program.
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