Evidence map›Paper›PMID 41298436›Full record

ArticleNature communications2025

Graphene-amorphous carbon with interwoven networks for enhanced strength.

Wanxiaonan Chen, Jie Sheng, Daming Chen, Boqian Sun, Hao Ding, Linsen Zhang, Bin Liu, Qingtan Ren, Deyu Zhang, Yuhao Fang and 19 more

Abstract read
PubMed Full text at PMC Publisher
In one paragraph

Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
0citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

0 citing papers in PubMed.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

29 authors.

Wanxiaonan ChenSchool of Materials Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0009-5570-6653
Jie ShengSchool of Materials Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China. shengjie@hit.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9013-8967
Daming ChenNational Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Advanced Composites in Special Environments, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China.
Boqian SunNational Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Advanced Composites in Special Environments, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China.
Hao DingSchool of Materials Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China.
Linsen ZhangSchool of Materials Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China.
Bin LiuSchool of Materials Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China.
Qingtan RenSchool of Materials Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0009-8224-9291
Deyu ZhangSchool of Materials Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China.
Yuhao FangNational Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Advanced Composites in Special Environments, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China.
Xianchao LuSchool of Materials Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China.
Yuying WuSchool of Materials Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China.
Yang LanSchool of Materials Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China.
Yongchun ZouCenter of Analysis and Measurement, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China.
Peng ZhangState Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China.
Xiaomeng YangDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China.
Pengcheng ZhangState Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China.
Zhiqi WangSchool of Materials Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6240-6829
Qianru LinSchool of Materials Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China.
Mingyi TanNational Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Advanced Composites in Special Environments, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China.
Wenzheng ZhangNational Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Advanced Composites in Special Environments, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China.
Yuan ChengNational Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Advanced Composites in Special Environments, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China.
Weili LiSchool of Materials Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China.
Lidong WangSchool of Materials Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China. wld@hit.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3985-0582
Shun DongNational Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Advanced Composites in Special Environments, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China.
Shanyi DuNational Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Advanced Composites in Special Environments, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China.
Jiecai HanNational Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Advanced Composites in Special Environments, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China.
Weidong FeiSchool of Materials Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China. wdfei@hit.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8380-5722
Xinghong ZhangNational Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Advanced Composites in Special Environments, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China. zhangxh@hit.edu.cn.

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) No. 52032003
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

High-strength, high-conductivity graphite-based carbon materials (GCMs) are widely explored for diverse applications. Designing and regulating the graphitic phase microstructure is essential for simultaneously enhancing mechanical and electrical properties, particularly mechanical strength. Here, we propose a two-step strategy to synthesize graphene-amorphous carbon (GAC) with interwoven graphene networks. By leveraging the different graphitization tendencies between polyacrylamide and glucose, we obtained GAC with a microscale structure in which few-layers graphene and amorphous carbon are uniformly interwoven. Therefore, the GAC exhibits exceptional compressive and flexural strengths of 303 MPa and 203 MPa, respectively, greatly exceeding previously reported performance benchmarks. Microscopic studies reveal that crack propagation is significantly impeded by the network of cross-cutting few-layer graphene, resulting in continuous crack deflections, which account for the outstanding mechanical performance of the GAC. This microstructure design strategy provides the rationale for developing ultrahigh-strength GCMs.

Identifiers

PMID41298436
PMCPMC12657966

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY-NC-ND
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.