• 文献标题:   Photo-Fenton-inspired deoxygenation of tea polyphenol-graphene by household bleach
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   ISMAIL Z
  • 作者关键词:   graphene, purification, bleach, polyphenol, liquidphase exfoliation
  • 出版物名称:   CARBON LETTERS
  • ISSN:   1976-4251 EI 2233-4998
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Malaysia Pahang
  • 被引频次:   0
  • DOI:   10.1007/s42823-019-00114-z EA NOV 2019
  • 出版年:   2020

▎ 摘  要

A liquid-phase exfoliation of few-layer graphene in tea is considered as one of the alternative approaches for the preparation of environment-friendly graphene. However, the removal of chemically adsorbed tea-polyphenols from graphene is known to be difficult and the application of centrifugation or filtration alone for the purification of graphene against tea-polyphenols is regarded to be almost technically impossible. Notably, a strategy for facile deoxygenation of tea-graphene must be established for a green and economical production of graphene to be realized. In this work, a simple purification method of graphene through the application of merely a household bleach (Clorox (R)) after the pre-exfoliation in black tea has been proposed. It has been found that the carbon-oxygen (C/O) value for graphene increases from 2.7 to 8.1 while the values of C-OH, C-O-C and C=O region in the C1s spectrum of graphene decrease significantly after being purified in bleach for 5 h. The stretching and shift of C-OH, C=O and C-O-C at 3468 cm(-1), 1637 cm(-1) and 1008 cm(-1) from IR spectrum of purified graphene seems to be in agreement with the produced data from the XPS and Raman spectroscopy. Despite the enhanced I-D/I-G of Raman from the hybridization of sp(2) by hydroxylation, the deoxygenation of tea-graphene does not negatively affect the electrical performance since the sheet resistance was impressively reduced to 193 ohm from 2.1 k ohm. It is believed that this photo-Fenton-inspired purification strategy would assist in the washing issue of polyphenol-stabilized graphene for various future electronic applications.