1. Microwave synthesis of large few-layer graphene sheets in aqueous solution of ammonia
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D. Soubane, Marc-Jacques Ledoux, Dominique Plee, Matthieu Houllé, Ovidiu Ersen, Dominique Begin, Christine Boeglin, Virginie Speisser, Izabela Janowska, Spyridon Zafeiratos, Cuong Pham-Huu, Victor Da Costa, and Kambiz Chizari
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Materials science ,Aqueous solution ,Graphene ,Analytical chemistry ,Condensed Matter Physics ,Exfoliation joint ,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics ,law.invention ,Materials Science(all) ,Electron diffraction ,law ,Transmission electron microscopy ,General Materials Science ,Graphite ,Electrical and Electronic Engineering ,Graphene nanoribbons ,Graphene oxide paper - Abstract
Few-layer graphene (FLG) sheets with sizes exceeding several micrometers have been synthesized by exfoliation of expanded graphite in aqueous solution of ammonia under microwave irradiation, with an overall yield approaching 8 wt.%. Transmission electron microscopy (in bright-field and dark-field modes) together with electron diffraction patterns and atomic force microscopy confirmed that this graphene material consisted mostly of mono-, bi- or few-layer graphene (less than ten layers). The high degree of surface reduction was confirmed by X-ray photoelectron and infrared spectroscopies. In addition, the high stability of the FLG in the liquid medium facilitates the deposition of the graphene material onto several substrates via low-cost solution-phase processing techniques, opening the way to subsequent applications of the material.
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- 2010