• 文献标题:   Efficient Production of High-Quality Polystyrene-Functionalized Graphene via Graphite Exfoliation in Chloroform with a Heterobifunctional Hyperbranched Polyethylene as Stabilizer
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   DUAN DH, YE HJ, LUO ZG, HAN B, CHEN YF, CAO XH, LIU WX, ZHONG MQ, XU LX
  • 作者关键词:   chloroform, functionalized hyperbranched polyethylene, liquidphase exfoliation, polystyrenefunctionalized graphene, production
  • 出版物名称:   MACROMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY PHYSICS
  • ISSN:   1022-1352 EI 1521-3935
  • 通讯作者地址:   Zhejiang Univ Technol
  • 被引频次:   2
  • DOI:   10.1002/macp.201800577
  • 出版年:   2019

▎ 摘  要

Efficient production of high-quality, functionalized graphene is highly desirable for large-scale applications of graphene. Herein, a route for producing high-quality, polystyrene (PS)-functionalized graphene is demonstrated via graphite exfoliation in chloroform with a heterobifunctional hyperbranched polyethylene, HBPE@Py@PS, as stabilizer. The HBPE@Py@PS, possessing a pyrene-functionalized hyperbranched polyethylene backbone and multiple PS side chains, is synthesized by combining chain walking polymerization and atom transfer radical polymerization techniques. It is confirmed that the HBPE@Py@PS can effectively promote graphite exfoliation in chloroform under sonication to render stable dispersions of high-quality graphene, with an exfoliation efficiency high as 15% and a monolayer proportion, 61%. Meanwhile, it can irreversibly adsorb on the exfoliated graphene surface based on the - stacking interactions, concurrently rendering PS-functionalized graphene that is fluorescent and highly dispersible in chloroform, with a film conductivity reaching 1100 S m(-1). The as-produced graphene may find its applications as nanofiller for various PS-based graphene nanocomposites.