Graphene-related materials

Key Words Organic solids, 2D NMR techniques, NMR interactions, NMR theory and Hamiltonians, Average Hamiltonian theory. Product operators, Polymers, Natural silk, t-Conjugated polymers. Graphene-related materials... 

The anerging 2D carbon crystalline graphene and graphene-related materials have attracted enormous attention from scientific and technological communities. The rapid development of graphene will enable the real applications of graphene realized in various fields and eventually play an important role in changing our lives in the near future. 

Despite the above challenges and difficulties, graphene membrane seems the closest to practical applications because films of sizable area with flexibility and high mechanical strength can be fabricated from gnythene or graphene-related materials relatively easily. 

Liang M, Luo B, Zhi L (2009) Application of graphene and graphene-based materials in clean energy-related devices. Int J Energy Res 33 1161-1170... 

Hashimoto, A., Terasaki, H., Yamamoto, A., and Tanaka, S. 2009. Electron beam irradiation effect for solid epitaxy on graphene. Diamond and Related Materials 18 388-391. 

AFM is an important tool for the identification of graphene and related materials. The thickness of graphene layers can be easily calculated from the AFM imaging height profile. 

Carbon-related materials, such as activated carbon, carbon nanotubes, graphene, and GOs, are known to have a large surface area and have been investigated in wastewater treatment for decades [52]. 

Ratinac, K.R., Yang, W, Gooding, J.J., Thordarson, P, and Braet, F. (2011) Graphene and related materials in electrochemical sensing. Electroanalysis, 23, 803-826. 

The present book chapter is focused on the use of graphene (G) and related materials in catalysis. This is a relatively new area of research that has started about 2010 and at the moment, and probably also in the future, represents a field relatively minor compared to the use of G in microelectronics and as component of optoelectronic devices. The interest in G in catalysis arises from the consideration that currently most of the heterogeneous catalysts are constituted by transition metals, in some cases even precious metals such as platinum, iridium, rhodium, gold, and others. 

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. 

Finally, the recent emergence of graphene nanosheets and related materials may offer other great opportunities for the development of carbon tube-sheet hybrid nanotechnologies, which may speed up their applications for advanced energy conversion. 

Bon, S.B., Piccinini, M., Mariani, A., Kenny, J.M., Valentmi, L., 2011. Wettability and switching of electrical conductivity in UV irradiated graphene oxide films. Diamond and Related Materials 20, 871—874. 

Chua C-K, Bonanni A, Pumera M (2014) Electrochemistry of graphene and related materials. Chem Rev 114 7150-7188... 

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