Graphene composite materials

Ma, J., T. Xue, and X. Qin. 2014. Sugar-derived carbon/graphene composite materials as electrodes for supercapacitors. Electrochimica Acta 115 566-572. 

Gold Nanoparticles-Graphene Composites Material Synthesis, Characterization and Catalytic Application... 

In this chapter, we have discussed the current and earlier research activities related with synthesis, characterization and catalytic application of the Au NPs-graphene composite materials. 

The described examples for the use of graphene for biosensing are only a handful of examples reported in the literature. The development of composite materials involving the addition of biopolymers, ionic liquids and metallic particles is advancing fast and these graphene composite materials show in many cases even better electrochemical characteristics. For example, Sahn et introduced gold nanoparticles onto poly(N-vinyl-2-pyrrolidone) stabilized rGO by redcuing HAuCU in a suspension of rGO... 

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PREPARATION, STRUCTURE, AND PROPERTY OF POLYMER/GRAPHENE COMPOSITE MATERIALS... 

The relationship between preparation, structure, and property of polymer/graphene composite materials is discussed in this chapter. Some graphenated CNTs were also discnssed. Some recent advances on graphene CNTs hybrid were discussed. 

Although there have been great advances in covalent functionalization of fullerenes to obtain surface-modified fullerene derivatives or fullerene polymers, the application of these compounds in composites still remains unexplored, basically because of the low availability of these compounds [132]. However, until now, modified fullerene derivatives have been used to prepare composites with different polymers, including acrylic [133,134] or vinyl polymers [135], polystyrene [136], polyethylene [137], and polyimide [138,139], amongst others. These composite materials have found applications especially in the field of optoelectronics [140] in which the most important applications of the fullerene-polymer composites have been in the field of photovoltaic and optical-limiting materials [141]. The methods to covalently functionalize fullerenes and their application for composites or hybrid materials are very well established and they have set the foundations that later were applied to the covalent functionalization of other carbon nanostructures including CNTs and graphene. 

Lv, X.-]., et al., Hydrogen evolution from water using semiconductor nanoparticle/graphene composite photocatalysts without noble metals. Journal of Materials Chemistry, 2012. 22(4) p. 1539-1546. 

Pang FI, Chen T, Zhang G, Zeng B, Li Z-M. An electrically conducting polymer/graphene composite with a very low percolation threshold. Materials Letters. 2010 Oct 31 64(20) 2226-9. 

Yavari F, Rafiee MA, Rafiee J, Yu Z-Z, Koratkar N. Dramatic increase in fatigue life in hierarchical graphene composites. Acs Applied Materials Interfaces. 2010 Oct 2(10) 2738-43. 

Yang S, Cui G, Pang S, Cao Q, Kolb U, Feng X, Amier J, Mullen K. Fabrication of cobalt and cobalt oxide/graphene composites Towards high-performance anode materials for lithium batteries, ChemSusChem 2010, 3, 236-239. 

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