Green approach for the effective reduction of graphene oxide using Salvadora persica L. root (Miswak) extract

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1-9

  Khan, Mujeeb ^a   Al Marri, Abdulhadi H ^a   Khan, Merajuddin ^a   Shaik, Mohammed Rafi ^a   Mohri, Nils ^b   Adil, Syed Farooq ^a   Kuniyil, Mufsir ^a   Alkhathlan, Hamad Z ^a   Al Warthan, Abdulrahman ^a   Tremel, Wolfgang ^b   Tahir, Muhammad Nawaz ^b   Siddiqui, Mohammed Rafiq H ^a  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Graphene; Graphene oxide; Green chemistry; Natural product; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; DEIONIZED WATER; DISPERSIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EXTRACTION; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MEDICAL NANOTECHNOLOGY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PLANT EXTRACTS; SPECTROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

CHEMICALLY REDUCED GRAPHENE OXIDES; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRA RED (FTIR) SPECTROSCOPY; GRAPHENE OXIDES; GREEN CHEMISTRY; LARGE SCALE PRODUCTIONS; NATURAL PRODUCTS; POWDER X RAY DIFFRACTION; REDUCED GRAPHENE OXIDES;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84951816762     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s11671-015-0987-z     Document Type: Article

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