TY - JOUR
T1 - Electrochemistry of graphene and related materials
AU - Ambrosi, Adriano
AU - Chua, Chun Kiang
AU - Bonanni, Alessandra
AU - Pumera, Martin
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2015 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2014/7/23
Y1 - 2014/7/23
N2 - Sustainable energy production, environmentally sustainable development, and affordable healthcare are three major challenges of the current global community. Electrochemistry is at the heart of many chemical and biological sensors, as well as energy storage and generation technologies. Electrochemistry utilizes energy in the cleanest possible form, as electricity, to collect or inject electrons through electrodes. Several synthetic routes have been established to prepare graphene, but each one of them, besides possessing different scalability, generates graphene with very different characteristics, which strongly influence its properties. The exfoliation of graphite was also achieved in aqueous solutions with the use of ultrasound in the presence of surfactants such as sodium dodecyl benzenesulfonate (SDBS), sodium cholate (SC), and 1-pyrenecarboxylic acid. The use of ultrasonication is necessary to facilitate the separation of graphene sheets but has a major drawback of breaking them into very small and inhomogeneous flakes.
AB - Sustainable energy production, environmentally sustainable development, and affordable healthcare are three major challenges of the current global community. Electrochemistry is at the heart of many chemical and biological sensors, as well as energy storage and generation technologies. Electrochemistry utilizes energy in the cleanest possible form, as electricity, to collect or inject electrons through electrodes. Several synthetic routes have been established to prepare graphene, but each one of them, besides possessing different scalability, generates graphene with very different characteristics, which strongly influence its properties. The exfoliation of graphite was also achieved in aqueous solutions with the use of ultrasound in the presence of surfactants such as sodium dodecyl benzenesulfonate (SDBS), sodium cholate (SC), and 1-pyrenecarboxylic acid. The use of ultrasonication is necessary to facilitate the separation of graphene sheets but has a major drawback of breaking them into very small and inhomogeneous flakes.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84906685819&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=84906685819&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1021/cr500023c
DO - 10.1021/cr500023c
M3 - Review article
C2 - 24895834
AN - SCOPUS:84906685819
VL - 114
SP - 7150
EP - 7188
JO - Chemical Reviews
JF - Chemical Reviews
SN - 0009-2665
IS - 14
ER -