A graphene oxide (GO)-based smart fire alarm sensor (FAS)
has gained
rapidly increasing research interest in fire safety fields recently.
However, it still remains a huge challenge to obtain desirable GO-based
FAS materials with integrated performances of mechanical flexibility/robustness,
harsh environment-tolerance, high-temperature resistance, and reliable
fire warning and protection. In this work, based on bionic design,
the supermolecule melamine diborate (M·2B) was combined with
GO nanosheets to form supramolecular cross-linking nanosystems, and
the corresponding GO-M·2B (GO/MB) hybrid papers with a nacre-like
micro/nano structure were successfully fabricated via a gel-dry method. The optimized GO/MB paper exhibits enhanced mechanical
properties, e.g., tensile strength
and toughness up to ∼122 MPa and ∼1.72 MJ/m3, respectively, which is ∼3.5 and ∼6.6 times higher
than those of the GO paper. Besides, it also shows excellent structural
stability even under acid/alkaline solution immersion and water bath
ultrasonication conditions. Furthermore, due to the presence of promoting
reduction effect and atom doping reactions in GO network, the resulting
GO/MB network displays exceptional high-temperature resistance, sensitive
fire alarm response (∼0.72 s), and ultralong alarming time
(>1200 s), showing promising fire safety and protection application
prospects as desirable FAS and fire shielding material with excellent
comprehensive performances. Therefore, this work provides inspiration
for the design and fabrication of high-performance GO-based smart
materials that combine fire shielding and alarm functions.