Gram-scale production of graphene based on solvothermal synthesis and sonication

Choucair, Mohammad and Thordarson, Pall and Stride, John A.. (2009) Gram-scale production of graphene based on solvothermal synthesis and sonication. Nature Nanotechnology, 4 (1). p. 30. ISSN 1748-3387

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Abstract

Carbon nanostructures have emerged as likely candidates for a wide range of applications, driving research into novel synthetic techniques to produce nanotubes, graphene and other carbon-based materials. Single sheets of pristine graphene have been isolated from bulk graphite in small amounts by micromechanical cleavage1, and larger amounts of chemically modified graphene sheets have been produced by a number of approaches2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. Both of these techniques make use of highly oriented pyrolitic graphite as a starting material and involve labour-intensive preparations. Here, we report the direct chemical synthesis of carbon nanosheets in gram-scale quantities in a bottom-up approach based on the common laboratory reagents ethanol and sodium, which are reacted to give an intermediate solid that is then pyrolized, yielding a fused array of graphene sheets that are dispersed by mild sonication. The ability to produce bulk graphene samples from non-graphitic precursors with a scalable, low-cost approach should take us a step closer to real-world applications of graphene.

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Additional Information: Reprinted by permission from Macmillan Publishers Ltd: Nature Nanotechnology (Choucair, Mohammad, et al. "Gram-scale production of graphene based on solvothermal synthesis and sonication." Nature Nanotechnology 4.1 (2009): 30 - 33.), copyright (2009)
InterNano Taxonomy: Nanoscale Objects and Nanostructured Materials > Other Nanostructured Materials > Graphene
Nanoscale Objects and Nanostructured Materials > Nanotubes
Collections: Nanomanufacturing Research Collection
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Depositing User: Rebecca Reznik-Zellen
Date Deposited: 05 Nov 2009 20:14
Last Modified: 05 Nov 2009 20:14
URI: http://eprints.internano.org/id/eprint/181

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