The Electrochemistry of Graphene

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In Chap. 3 we consider the electrochemistry of graphene and the attempts made to understand this unique material. 

When carbon nanotubes (CNTs, which are effectively rolled up graphene structures) were first utilised in electrochemical applications they were found to contain metallic impurities as a result of their CVD fabrication, which contributed or dominated their observed electrochemical response [59, 60]. Similarly, it has been shown that graphene fabricated from graphite, via chemical oxidation of natural graphite followed with thermal exfoliation/reduction, can contain cobalt, copper, iron, molybdenum and nickel oxide particles which can influence the electrochemistry of graphene towards specific analytes and has potential to lead to inaccurate claims of the electro-catalytic effect of graphene [61, 62]. 

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