Researchers crush and press functionalized graphene to make strong, light graphite pellets that hold promise for electronic and catalytic applications. It's easy and economical to make shiny pellets ...

Using a ball-milling process, we directly functionalized graphite with a bio-derived nitrogen source (amino acids) under ambient conditions. Instead of heating materials in furnaces or refluxing them ...

ACS Nano – Large-Area Graphene Films by Simple Solution Casting of Edge-Selectively Functionalized Graphite Researchers have demonstrated an inexpensive way to obtain graphene in large quantities ...

Mohamad Kabbani, a former graduate student of Rice materials scientist Pulickel Ajayan and lead author of the paper, demonstrated the environmentally friendly, scalable process can be done in minutes ...

Currently, a number of techniques are used to produce graphene and these include epitaxial growth, chemical vapour deposition (CVD), and thermal or mechanical exfoliation. Large scale production of ...

(Nanowerk News) The electrocatalytic activity of heteroatom-doped carbon-based nanomaterials has become a growing interest in the past few years due to their potential applications for fuel cells and ...

HOUSTON - (March 22, 2018) - It's easy and economical to make shiny pellets of graphite from functionalized graphene, according to scientists at Rice University. A report in Carbon shows how ...

Researchers have pioneered a simple, but efficient and eco-friendly way to produce Edge-selectively functionalized graphene nanoplatelets (EFGnPs) by dry ball milling graphite in the presence of ...