Graphene Fibres: Towards high mechanical, thermal and electrical properties state of art

Paper in proceeding, 2016

Nowadays, tremendous efforts are made to enhance the thermal conductivity of materials and answer to demands for fast heat dissipation in various applications such as wearable electronics, photovoltaic energy conversion and advanced structural materials mounted on high power electronics. The main difficulty comes very often from the ability to simultaneously produce superior thermal, electrical and high mechanical properties. For this matter, graphene which owned the nickname of miracle material has attracted all the attention to exploit its outstanding properties at an industriel scale and the field of graphene fibre turned to be a very promising approach to produce a high quality 3D graphene material. In this review paper, we propose to summarize briefly the different advances and attemps made up to now in order the assemble graphene into macroscopic three-dimensional structures and apply the unique properties of its two-dimensional individuels in practical applications.