A study on the physicochemical properties of hydroalcoholic solutions to improve the direct exfoliation of natural graphite down to few-layers graphene

Materials Research Express

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Fedi, Filippo ^a,b   Miglietta, Maria Lucia ^a   Polichetti, Tiziana ^a   Ricciardella, Filiberto ^a,c   Massera, Ettore ^a   Ninno, Domenico ^c   Di Francia, Girolamo ^a  

^a Laboratory for Materials and Devices Basic Research   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Graphene; Liquid phase exfoliation; Low boiling solvents

Indexed keywords

EXFOLIATION (MATERIALS SCIENCE); GRAPHITE; LIQUIDS; MIXTURES; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTIES; SOLVENTS; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; SURFACE TENSION; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

BOILING SOLVENTS; EXFOLIATION PROCESS; FEW LAYERS GRAPHENE; GRAPHITE EXFOLIATION; HANSEN SOLUBILITY PARAMETERS; HYDROALCOHOLIC SOLUTION; LIQUID PHASE; STRAIGHT-FORWARD METHOD;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84937154704     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20531591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/2053-1591/2/3/035601     Document Type: Article

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