• 文献标题:   Highly Water-Dispersible Graphene Nanosheets From Electrochemical Exfoliation of Graphite
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   PARK SW, JANG B, KIM H, LEE J, PARK JY, KANG SO, CHOA YH
  • 作者关键词:   graphene, water dispersion, sulfate functionalization, electrochemical exfoliation, edge functionalization
  • 出版物名称:   FRONTIERS IN CHEMISTRY
  • ISSN:   2296-2646
  • 通讯作者地址:  
  • 被引频次:   8
  • DOI:   10.3389/fchem.2021.699231
  • 出版年:   2021

▎ 摘  要

The electrochemical exfoliation of graphite has been considered to be an effective approach for the mass production of high-quality graphene due to its easy, simple, and eco-friendly synthetic features. However, water dispersion of graphene produced in the electrochemical exfoliation method has also been a challenging issue because of the hydrophobic properties of the resulting graphene. In this study, we report the electrochemical exfoliation method of producing water-dispersible graphene that importantly contains the relatively low oxygen content of in situ sulfate functionalization of graphite under alkaline electrochemical conditions using a pH buffer, the highly water-dispersible graphene could be produced without any additional separation processes of sedimentation and/or centrifugation. We found the resulting graphene sheets to have high crystalline basal planes, lateral sizes of several mu m, and a thickness of <5 nm. Furthermore, the high aqueous dispersion stability of as-prepared graphene could be demonstrated using a multi-light scattering technique, showing very little change in the optical transmittance and the terbiscan stability index over time.