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Three-dimensional (3D) cellular materials built from carbon nanostructures are currently under increasing investigation in terms of fabrication and physical properties because of their significant technological potential for diverse advanced applications, such as biological scaffolds, electrochemical biosensing, supercapacitors, light weight flexible batteries, and highly efficient oil absorbers
Apart from being highly porous and extremely lightweight, AG exhibits very interesting specific mechanical properties such as remarkable specific tensile strength (σ/ρ) and Young’s moduli (E/ρ)27 , being in principle ideal candidates for impact protection and shock absorption. Some variants show also self-stiffening in cyclic mechanical loading
Single tetrapod bending experiments
In the first in situ experiment, tetrapods were dropped on a Si/SiO2 wafer after scratching them from a bulk AG sample. For mechanical measurements, only the tetrapods which were strongly adhering by vdW forces with the wafer substrate were chosen, that is, those attached with three arms to the substrate and thus did not change position during the bending experiments. When the proper geometrical alignment was achieved, the tip of the cantilever was moved towards the free arm of the tetrapod and the bending of both tetrapod and cantilever was observed. The whole motion was captured in a video (see Supplementary Movies 1 and 2), which was analysed frame-by-frame, to quantify the deflections of both, tetrapod and cantilever, respectively (calculation of the torque–deflection-curves from the in situ video data is described in detail in the Supplementary Note 1).
https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms14982#s1
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Apart from being highly porous and extremely lightweight, AG exhibits very interesting specific mechanical properties such as remarkable specific tensile strength (σ/ρ) and Young’s moduli (E/ρ)27 , being in principle ideal candidates for impact protection and shock absorption. Some variants show also self-stiffening in cyclic mechanical loading
Single tetrapod bending experiments
In the first in situ experiment, tetrapods were dropped on a Si/SiO2 wafer after scratching them from a bulk AG sample. For mechanical measurements, only the tetrapods which were strongly adhering by vdW forces with the wafer substrate were chosen, that is, those attached with three arms to the substrate and thus did not change position during the bending experiments. When the proper geometrical alignment was achieved, the tip of the cantilever was moved towards the free arm of the tetrapod and the bending of both tetrapod and cantilever was observed. The whole motion was captured in a video (see Supplementary Movies 1 and 2), which was analysed frame-by-frame, to quantify the deflections of both, tetrapod and cantilever, respectively (calculation of the torque–deflection-curves from the in situ video data is described in detail in the Supplementary Note 1).
https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms14982#s1
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