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Ultralight three-dimensional (3D) cellular architectures are both a challenge and an opportunity for those academic and industrial applications involved with high performance material design. The challenges have been accessed by employing a variety of materials. Accordingly, graphene has shown greatest potential by virtue of its unique chemical, thermal, electronic, and mechanical properties for applications ranging from structural materials to energy storage/conversion devices. In this review, we highlight recent efforts and advances made in the implementation of graphene-based 3D cellular architectures, especially focusing on the ultralight density region (<10 mg·cm−3). First, we reviewed the synthetic approaches for generating graphene-based 3D lightweight cellular structures according to the criteria of closed-cellular structures (CCSs) or open-cellular structures (OCSs) whether cell faces between constituent unit cells exist or not, respectively. These structural differences could lead to discerning physical properties, such as in mass transport across pores, heat/electron transfer through graphene framework, and various modes in mechanical deformation. We then collectively introduce recent achievements for representative applications utilizing different types of cellular structures such as flexible electronics, energy storage/conversion systems, fluid absorption, mechanical dampers, and sensors. Finally, we highlight the future perspectives of graphene-based lightweight cellular structures to surpass existing technological challenges.
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This work was supported by a grant (19SCIP-B146646-02) from the Construction Technology Research Project funded by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MLIT), Korea.
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Professor Pil J. Yoo is the professor of School of Chemical Engineering and SKKU Advanced Institute of Nanotechnology (SAINT) at the Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) of Korea. He received his BS (1998), MS (2000) and PhD (2004) in the department of chemical engineering from the Seoul National University of Korea. He has also worked as a postdoctoral associate in the department of chemical engineering of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), then he joined as the faculty of the School of Chemical Engineering of SKKU in 2007. He has published more than 140 SCI papers including Nature Materials, Advanced Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, and ACS Nano, etc. Also, His research works have been cited more than 7,400 times and his H-index is 37. He is serving an associate editor of ‘Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering (ISSN: 0256-1115)’ and ‘NANO (ISSN: 1793-2920). Currently, his research expertise includes interfacial manipulation of functionalized thin films using multiscale architecturing methods and organic/inorganic hybridization for next-generation energy device and environmental applications.
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Oh, M.J., Yoo, P.J. Graphene-based 3D lightweight cellular structures: Synthesis and applications. Korean J. Chem. Eng. 37, 189–208 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11814-019-0437-1
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