Synthesis and characterization of graphene-based nanocomposites with potential use for biomedical applications

Journal of Nanoparticle Research

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Nuvoli, Daniele ^a   Alzari, Valeria ^a   Sanna, Roberta ^a   Scognamillo, Sergio ^a   Alongi, Jenny ^b   Malucelli, Giulio ^b   Mariani, Alberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acrylic copolymers; Graphene; Mechanical properties; Nanocomposites

Indexed keywords

GAS METAL ARC WELDING; GLASS TRANSITION; GRAPHENE; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; NANOCOMPOSITES;

ACRYLIC CO-POLYMERS; BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS; DIRECT PREPARATION; GRAPHENE DISPERSIONS; POLYMER NETWORKS; REINFORCING EFFECTS; SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATIONS; THERMAL AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES;

POLYMER MATRIX COMPOSITES;

ACRYLIC ACID DERIVATIVE; FILLER; GRAPHENE; GRAPHITE; MONOMER; NANOCOMPOSITE; TETRAETHYLENEGLYCOL DIACRYLATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; DISPERSION; GLASS TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; MECHANICS; MORPHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SYNTHESIS; THERMAL ANALYSIS; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 84873939473     PISSN: 13880764     EISSN: 1572896X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11051-013-1512-x     Document Type: Article

References (54)

1. Aguilar MR, Elvira C, Gallardo A, Vázquez B, Román JS (2007) Smart polymers and their applications as biomaterials. In: Ashammakhi N, Reis R, Chiellini E (eds) Topics in tissue engineering vol 3. University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
2. Aizawa T, Souda R, Otani S, Ishizawa Y, Oshima C (1990) Anomalous bond of monolayer graphite on transition-metal carbide surfaces. Phys Rev Lett 64:768-771
3. Alzari V, Nuvoli D, Scognamillo S, Piccinini M, Gioffredi E, Malucelli G, Marceddu S, Sechi M, Sanna V, Mariani A (2011a) Graphene-containing nanocomposite hydrogels of poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) prepared by frontal polymerization. J Mater Chem 21:8727-8733
4. Alzari V, Nuvoli D, Sanna R, Scognamillo S, Piccinini M, Kenny JM, Malucelli G, Mariani A (2011b) In situ production of high filler content graphene-based polymer nanocomposites by reactive processing. J Mater Chem 21:16544-16549
5. Ansari S, Giannelis EP (2009) Functionalized graphene sheetpoly(vinylidene fluoride) conductive nanocomposites. J Polym Sci Part B Polym Phys 47:888-897
6. Antonucci JM, Stansbury JW (1997) Molecular designed dental polymer. In: Arshady R (ed) Desk reference of functional polymers: synthesis and application. American Chemical Society, Publication, pp 719-738
7. Balandin AA, Ghosh S, Bao W, Calizo I, Teweldebrhan D, Miao F, Ning Lau C (2008) Superior thermal conductivity of single-layer graphene. Nano Lett 8:902-907
8. Ballo AM, Närhi TO, Akca EA, Ozenm T, Syrjänen SM, Lassila LVJ, Vallittu PK (2011) Prepolymerized vs. in situ-polymerized fiber-reinforced composite implants - a pilot study. J Dent Res 90:263-267
9. Berger C, Song Z, Li X, Wu X, Brown N, Naud C, Mayou D, Li T, Hass J, Marchenkov AN, Conrad EH, First PN, de Heer WA (2006) Electronic confinement and coherence in patterned epitaxial graphene. Science 312:1191-1196 (Pubitemid 43801140)
10. Boukhvalov DW, Katsnelson MI (2008) Modeling of graphite oxide. J Am Chem Soc 130:10697-10701
11. Bowen RL (1962) Dental filling material comprising vinyl silane treated fused silica and a binder consisting of the reaction product of bisphenol and glycidyl acrylate. U.S. Patent 3066112
12. Bowen RL (1963) Properties of a silica-reinforced polymer for dental restorations. J Am Dent Assoc 66:57-64
13. Bowen RL (1965) Method of preparing a monomer having phenoxy and methacrylate groups linked by hydroxy glycerol groups. U.S. Patent 3179623
14. Chen M, Chen C, Hsu S, Sun SH, Su W (2005) Low shrinkage light curable nanocomposite for dental restorative material. Dent Mater 22:138-145 (Pubitemid 43061313)
15. Coleman JN (2013) Liquid exfoliation of defect-free graphene. Acc Chem Res 46:14-22
16. Fan H, Wang L, Zhao K, Li N, Shi Z, Ge Z, Jin Z (2010) Fabrication, mechanical properties, and biocompatibility of graphene-reinforced chitosan composites. Biomacromolecules 11:2345-2351
17. Ferrari AC, Meyer JC, Scardaci V, Casiraghi C, Lazzeri M, Mauri F, Piscanec S, Jiang D, Novoselov KS, Roth S, Geim AK (2006) Quantifying defects in graphene via Raman spectroscopy at different excitation energies. Phys Rev Lett 97:187401-187403 (Pubitemid 44658281)
18. Garboczi EJ, Snyder KA, Douglas JF, Thorpe MF (1995) Geometrical percolation-threshold of overlapping ellipsoids. Phys Rev E 52:819-828
19. Hernandez Y, Nicolosi V, Lotya M, Blighe FM, Sun Z, De S, McGovern IT, Holland B, Byrne M, Gun'ko YK, Boland JJ, Niraj P, Duesberg G, Krishnamurthy S, Goodhue R, Hutchison JH, Scardaci V, Ferrari AC, Coleman JN (2008) High-yeld production of graphene by liquid-phase exfoliation of graphite. Nat Nantechnol 3:563-568
20. Khan U, O'Neill A, Lotya M, De S, Coleman JN (2010) High-concentration solvent exfoliation of graphene. Small 6:864-871
21. Khan U, Porwal H, O'Neill A, Nawaz K, May P, Coleman JN (2011) Solvent-exfoliated graphene at extremely high concentration. Langmuir 27:9077-9082
22. Kim H, Abdala AA, Macosko CW (2010) Graphene/polymer. nanocomposites. Macromolecules 43:6515-6530
23. Lee C, Wei X, Kysar JW, Hone J (2008) Measurement of the elastic properties and intrinsic strength of monolayer graphene. Science 321:385-388 (Pubitemid 352029970)
24. Lerf A, He H, Forster M, Klinowski J (1998) Structure of graphite oxide revisited. J Phys Chem B 102:4477-4482 (Pubitemid 128578310)
25. Li X, Zhang G, Bai X, Sun X, Wang X, Wang E, Dai H (2008) Highly conducting graphene sheets and Langmuir-Blodgett films. Nat Nanotechnol 3:538-542
26. Lu X, Yu M, Huang H, Ruoff RS (1999) Tailoring graphite with the goal of achieving single sheets. Nanotechnology 10:269-272
27. Novoselov KS, Geim AK, Morozov SV, Jiang D, Zhang Y, Dubonos SV, Grigorieva IV, Firsov AA (2004) Electric field effect in atomically thin carbon films. Science 306:666-669 (Pubitemid 39440910)
28. Novoselov KS, Geim AK, Morozov SV, Jiang D, Katsnelson MI, Grigorieva IV, Dubonos SV, Firsov AA (2005) Two-dimensional gas of massless Dirac fermions in graphene. Nature 438:197-200 (Pubitemid 41599867)
29. Nuvoli D, Valentini L, Alzari V, Scognamillo S, Bittolo Bon S, Piccinini M, Illescas J, Mariani A (2011) High concentration few-layer graphene sheets obtained by liquid phase exfoliation of graphite in ionic liquid. J Mater Chem 21:3428-3431
30. Nuvoli D, Alzari V, Sanna R, Scognamillo S, Piccinini M, Peponi L, Kenny JM, Mriani A (2012) The production of concentrated dispersions of few-layer graphene by the direct exfoliation of graphite in organosilanes. Nanoscale Res Lett 7:674-680
31. Palussière J, Berge J, Gangi A, Cotten A, Pasco A, Bertagnoli R, Jaksche H, Carpeggiani P, Deramond H (2005) Clinical results of an open prospective study of a bis-GMA composite in percutaneous vertebral augmentation. Eur Spine J 14:982-991 (Pubitemid 41798050)
32. Park S, Ruoff RS (2009) Chemical methods for the production of graphenes. Nat Nanotechnol 4:217-224
33. Ponomarenko L, Schedin F, Katsnelson MI, Yang R, Hill EW, Novoselov KS, Geim AK (2008) Chaotic Dirac billiard in graphene quantum dots. Science 320:356-358 (Pubitemid 351555654)
34. Potts JR, Dreyer DR, Bielawski CW, Ruoff RS (2011) Graphene-based polymer nanocomposites. Polymer 52:5-25
35. Rafiee MA, Rafiee J, Wang Z, Song H, Yu ZZ, Koratkar N (2009) Enhanced mechanical properties of nanocomposites at low graphene content. ACS Nano 3:3884-3890
36. Ramanathan T, Abdala AA, Stankovich S, Dikin DA, Herrera-Alonso M, Piner RD, Adamson DH, Schniepp HC, Chen X, Ruoff RS, Nguyen ST, Aksay IA, Prud'Homme RK, Brinson LC (2008) Functionalized graphene sheets for polymer nanocomposites. Nat Nanotechnol 3:327-331 (Pubitemid 351809622)
37. Roberson TM, Heyman H, Swift EJ (2002) Sturdevant's art and science of operative dentistry, 4th edn. Mosby Elsevier, St Louis
38. Sanchez VC, Jachak A, Hurt RH, Kane AB (2012) Biological interactions of graphene-family nanomaterials: an interdisciplinary review. Chem Res Toxicol 25:15-34
39. Sanna R, Sanna D, Alzari V, Nuvoli D, Scognamillo S, Piccinini M, Lazzari M, Gioffredi E, Malucelli G, Mariani A (2012) Synthesis and characterization of graphene-containing thermoresponsive nanocomposite hydrogels of poly(N-vinylcaprolactam) prepared by frontal polymerization. J Pol Sci Part A Polym Chem 50:4110-4118
40. Sasidharan A, Panchakarla LS, Chandran P, Menon D, Nair S, Rao CNR, Koyakutty M (2011) Differential nano-bio interactions and toxicity effects of pristine versus functionalized graphene. Nanoscale 3:2461-2464
41. Sasidharan A, Panchakarla LS, Chandran P, Menon D, Nair S, Rao CNR, Koyakutty M (2012) Graphene nanocomposite for biomedical applications: fabrication, antimicrobial and cytotoxic investigations. Nanotechnology 23:395101-395111
42. Schedin F, Geim AK, Morozov SV, Hill EW, Blake P, Katsnelson MI, Novoselov KS (2007) Detection of individual gas molecules adsorbed on graphene. Nat Mater 6:652-655 (Pubitemid 47359547)
43. Scognamillo S, Gioffredi E, Piccinini M, Lazzari M, Alzari V, Nuvoli D, Sanna R, Piga D, Malucelli G, Mariani A (2012) Synthesis and characterization of nanocomposites of thermoplastic polyurethane with both graphene and graphene nanoribbon fillers. Polymer 53:4019-4024
44. Slonczewski JC, Weiss PR (1958) Band structure of graphite. Phys Rev 109:272-279
45. Sofo JO, Chaudhari AS, Barber GD (2007) Graphane: a two-dimensional hydrocarbon. Phys Rev B 75:153401-153404
46. Soh MS, Sellinger A, Yap AUJ (2006) Dental nanocomposites. Curr Nanosci 2:373-381 (Pubitemid 44697125)
47. Stankovich S, Dikin DA, Dommett GHB, Kohlhaas KM, Zimney EJ, Stach EA, Piner RD, Nguyen ST, Ruoff RS (2006) Graphene-based composite materials. Nature 442:282-286 (Pubitemid 44114900)
48. Stoller MD, Park S, Zhu Y, An J, Ruoff RS (2008) Graphene-based ultracapacitors. Nano Lett 8:3498-3502
49. Tuusa SM, Peltola MJ, Tirri T, Lassila LV, Vallittu PK (2007) Frontal bone defect repair with experimental glass-fiber-reinforced composite with bioactive glass granule coating. J Biomed Mater Res B Appl Biomater 82:149-155 (Pubitemid 47015364)
50. Verdejo R, Barroso-Bujans F, Rodriguez-Perez MA, de Saja JA, Lopez-Manchado MA (2008) Functionalized graphene sheet filled silicone foam nanocomposites. J Mater Chem 18:2221-2226 (Pubitemid 351671697)
51. Wang X, Zhi L, Müllen K (2008) Transparent, conductive graphene electrodes for dye-sensitized solar cells. Nano Lett 8:323-327 (Pubitemid 351177822)
52. Wang X, Li X, Zhang L, Yoon Y, Weber PK, Wang H, Guo J, Dai H (2009) N-doping of graphene through electrothermal reactions with ammonia. Science 324:768-771
53. Yoo E, Kim J, Hosono E, Zhou H, Kudo T, Honma I (2008) Large reversible Li storage of graphene nanosheet families for use in rechargeable lithium ion batteries. Nano Lett 8:2277-2282
54. Zhao DS, Moritz N, Laurila P, Mattila R, Lassila LV, Strandberg N, Mäntylä T, Vallittu P, Aro HT (2009) Development of a multi-component fiber-reinforced composite implant for load-sharing conditions. Med Eng Phys 31:461-469