Fabrication of uniform graphene discs via transversal cutting of carbon nanofibers

ACS Nano

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 6254-6261

  Long, Donghui ^a   Hong, Jin Yong ^b   Li, Wei ^a   Miyawaki, Jin ^a   Ling, Licheng ^c   Mochida, Isao ^a   Yoon, Seong Ho ^a   Jang, Jyongsik ^b  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^c EAST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

carbon nanofiber; graphene; mechanical reduction; nanomaterials; shape control

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENT SOLVENTS; EXFOLIATION PROCESS; EXTERNAL SURFACES; FREE EDGE; HIGH-CONTENT; MECHANICAL REDUCTION; NOVEL STRATEGIES; PROCESSABILITY; REDUCTION METHOD; SHAPE CONTROL;

CARBON NANOFIBERS; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

GRAPHENE;

CARBON; GRAPHITE; NANOFIBER; REDUCING AGENT; SOLVENT;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; MECHANICS; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY;

CARBON; GRAPHITE; MECHANICAL PROCESSES; NANOFIBERS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; REDUCING AGENTS; SOLVENTS;

EID: 80052040824     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn201195g     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. Geim, A. K.; Novoselov, K. S. The Rise of Graphene Nat. Mater. 2007, 6, 183-191 (Pubitemid 46353764)
2. Guinea, F.; Katsnelson, M. I.; Geim, A. K. Energy Gaps and a Zero-Field Quantum Hall Effect in Graphene by Strain Engineering Nat. Phys. 2010, 6, 30-33
3. Wassei, J. K.; Kaner, R. B. Graphene, A Promising Transparent Conductor Mater. Today 2010, 13, 52-59
4. Becerril, H. A.; Mao, J.; Liu, Z.; Stoltenberg, R. M.; Bao, Z.; Chen, Y. Evaluation of Solution-Processed Reduced Graphene Oxide Films as Transparent Conductors ACS Nano 2008, 2, 463-470
5. Liao, K. H.; Mittal, A.; Bose, S.; Leighton, C.; Mkhoyan, K. A.; Macosko, C. W. Aqueous Only Route toward Graphene from Graphite Oxide ACS Nano 2011, 5, 1253-1258
6. Lotya, M.; King, P. J.; Khan, U.; De, S.; Coleman, J. N. High-Concentration, Surfactant-Stabilized Graphene Dispersions ACS Nano 2011, 4, 3155-3162
7. Su, C. Y.; Lu, A. Y.; Xu, Y.; Chen, F. R.; Khlobystov, A. N.; Li, L. J. High-Quality Thin Graphene Films from Fast Electrochemical Exfoliation ACS Nano 2011, 5, 2332-2339
8. Park, S.; Ruoff, R. S. Chemical Methods for The Production of Graphenes Nat. Nanotechnol. 2009, 4, 217-224
9. Hong, J.-Y.; Shin, K.-Y.; Kwon, O. S.; Kang, H.; Jang, J. A Strategy for Fabricating Single Layer Graphene Sheets Based on a Layer-by-Layer Self-Assembly Chem. Commun. 2011, 47, 7182-7184
10. Gomez-Navarro, C.; Weitz, R. T.; Bittner, A. M.; Scolari, M.; Mews, A.; Burghard, M.; Kern, K. Electronic Transport Properties of Individual Chemically Reduced Graphene Oxide Sheets Nano Lett. 2009, 9, 2206-2206
11. Marcano, D. C.; Kosynkin, D. V.; Berlin, J. M.; Sinitskii, A.; Sun, Z.; Slesarev, A.; Alemany, L. B.; Lu, W.; Tour, J. M. Improved Synthesis of Graphene Oxide ACS Nano 2010, 4, 4806-4814
12. Luo, J.; Tian, P.; Pan, C. T.; Robertson, A. W.; Warner, J. H.; Hill, E. W.; Briggs, G. A. D. Ultralow Secondary Electron Emission of Graphene ACS Nano 2011, 5, 1047-1055
13. Zhu, Y.; Stoller, M. D.; Cai, W.; Velamakanni, A.; Piner, R. D.; Chen, D.; Ruoff, R. S. Exfoliation of Graphite Oxide in Propylene Carbonate and Thermal Reduction of the Resulting Graphene Oxide Platelets ACS Nano 2010, 4, 1227-1233
14. Wu, Q.; Xu, Y.; Yao, Z.; Liu, A.; Shi, G. Supercapacitors Based on Flexible Graphene/Polyaniline Nanofiber Composite Films ACS Nano 2010, 4, 1963-1970
15. Liu, Z.; Robinson, J. T.; Sun, X.; Dai, H. PEGylated Nanographene Oxide for Delivery of Water-Insoluble Cancer Drugs J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, 10876-10877
16. Hernandez, Y.; Nicolosi, V.; Lotya, M.; Blighe, F. M.; Sun, Z.; De, S.; McGovern, I. T.; Holland, B.; Byrne, M.; Gun'Ko, Y. K. et al. High-Yield Production of Graphene by Liquid-Phase Exfoliation of Graphite Nat. Nanotechnol. 2008, 3, 563-568
17. Li, X. L.; Zhang, G. Y.; Bai, X. D.; Sun, X. M.; Wang, X. R.; Wang, E. G.; Dai, H. J. Highly Conducting Graphene Sheets and Langmuir-Blodgett Films Nat. Nanotechnol. 2008, 3, 538-542
18. Berger, C.; Song, Z. M.; Li, T. B.; Li, X. B.; Ogbazghi, A. Y.; Feng, R.; Dai, Z. T.; Marchenkov, A. N.; Conrad, E. H.; First, P. N. et al. Ultrathin Epitaxial Graphite: 2D Electron Gas Properties and a Route toward Graphene-Based Nanoelectronics J. Phys. Chem. B 2004, 108, 19912-19916 (Pubitemid 40079151)
19. Emtsev, K. V.; Bostwick, A.; Horn, K.; Jobst, J.; Kellogg, G. L.; Ley, L.; McChesney, J. L.; Ohta, T.; Reshanov, S. A.; Rohrl, J. et al. Towards Wafer-Size Graphene Layers by Atmospheric Pressure Graphitization of Silicon Carbide Nat. Mater. 2009, 8, 203-207
20. Reina, A.; Jia, X. T.; Ho, J.; Nezich, D.; Son, H.; Bulovic, V.; Dresselhaus, M. S.; Kong, J. Large Area, Few-Layer Graphene Films on Arbitrary Substrates by Chemical Vapor Deposition Nano Lett. 2009, 9, 30-35
21. Li, X. S.; Cai, W. W.; An, J. H.; Kim, S.; Nah, J.; Yang, D. X.; Piner, R.; Velamakanni, A.; Jung, I.; Tutuc, E. et al. Large-Area Synthesis of High-Quality and Uniform Graphene Films on Copper Foils Science 2009, 324, 1312-1314
22. 17 Surface ACS Nano 2010, 4, 1026-1032
23. Kosynkin, D. V.; Higginbotham, A. L.; Sinitskii, A.; Lomeda, J. R.; Dimiev, A.; Price, B. K.; Tour, J. M. Longitudinal Unzipping of Carbon Nanotubes To Form Graphene Nanoribbons Nature 2009, 458, 872-876
24. Jiao, L.; Zhang, L.; Wang, X.; Diankov, G.; Dai, H. Narrow Graphene Nanoribbons from Carbon Nanotubes Nature 2009, 458, 877-880
25. Yoon, S.; Lim, S.; Hong, S.; Qiao, W.; Whitehurst, D. D.; Mochida, I.; An, B.; Yokogawa, K. A Conceptual Model for the Structure of Catalytically Grown Carbon Nano-fibers Carbon 2004, 43, 1828-1838
26. Helveg, S.; Lopez-Cartes, C.; Sehested, J.; Hansen, P. L.; Clausen, B. S.; Rostrup-Nielsen, J. R.; Abild-Pedersen, F.; Norskov, J. S. Atomic-Scale Imaging of Carbon Nanofibre Growth Nature 2004, 427, 426-429 (Pubitemid 38168491)
27. Hummers, W. S.; Offeman, R. E. Preparation of Graphitic Oxide J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1958, 80, 1339
28. Bourlinos, A. B.; Gournis, D.; Petridis, D.; Szabo, T.; Szeri, A.; Dekany, I. Graphite Oxide: Chemical Reduction to Graphite and Surface Modification with Primary Aliphatic Amines and Amino Acids Langmuir 2003, 19, 6050-6055
29. He, H. Y.; Riedl, T.; Lerf, A.; Kliowski, J. Solid-State NMR Studies of the Structure of Graphite Oxide J. Phys. Chem. 1996, 100, 19954-19958 (Pubitemid 126786917)
30. Lerf, A.; He, H. Y.; Forster, M.; Klinowski, J. Structure of Graphite Oxide Revisited J. Phys. Chem. B 1998, 102, 4477-4482 (Pubitemid 128578310)
31. Zhou, Y.; Bao, Q.; Tang, L. A. L.; Zhong, Y.; Loh, K. P. Hydrothermal Dehydration for the "Green" Reduction of Exfoliated Graphene Oxide to Graphene and Demonstration of Tunable Optical Limiting Properties Chem. Mater. 2009, 21, 2950-2956
32. Rourke, J. P.; Pandey, P. A.; Moore, J. J.; Bates, M.; Kinloch, I. A.; Young, R. J.; Wilson, N. R. The Real Graphene Oxide Revealed: Stripping the Oxidative Debris from the Graphene-like Sheets Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2011, 50, 3173-3177
33. Su, C. Y.; Xu, Y.; Zhang, W.; Zhao, J.; Tang, X.; Tsai, C. H.; Li, L. J. Electrical and Spectroscopic Characterizations of Ultra-large Reduced Graphene Oxide Monolayers Chem. Mater. 2009, 21, 5674-5680
34. Su, C. Y.; Xu, Y.; Zhang, W.; Zhao, J.; Liu, A.; Tang, X.; Tsai, C. H.; Huang, Y.; Li, L. J. Highly Efficient Restoration of Graphitic Structure in Graphene Oxide Using Alcohol Vapors ACS Nano 2010, 4, 5285-5292