Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Gone Fishin (or Synthesizing)

Hope everyone's been doing well out there. As you might have noticed, there haven't been any posts here for a few months; I'm pretty much done with blogging graphene literature for a while. I learned a lot about graphenes and about reading/understanding literature, and I appreciate everyone coming to check it out. If anyone would like to use my platform to write similar research reviews, please feel free to email me at RobWtzl@gmail.com.

Thanks again to everyone who came and read some stuff, and thanks especially to the kind folks at Carbon-Based Curiosities, Research Blogging, The Chem Blog, and Blogger for providing publicity, inspiration, and technical support.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thank you very much for such useful lituratures of graphene material. For the synthesis method of graphene from graphene oxide, I know that Hydrazine is a very toxic material. So that for large-scale production of graphene, does this problem cause harmful to our environment? Is there any chemical species that could replace Hydrazine?

Rob W said...

Ruan-
Hydrazine is indeed nasty stuff, and supposedly it can leave nitrogen-containing dopants in the graphene film, really messing with the electrical properties. Simply using heat (700-1100 C) might be enough to reduce graphene oxide back to graphene; here is a summary of such a paper by Chen et al.

I think that Walter de Heer is also fooling about with reducing graphene oxide by heat.