Bottom-up synthesis of multifunctional nanoporous graphene

Graphene synthesis: Nanoribbons from the bottom-up.

Bottom-up solution synthesis of narrow nitrogen-doped graphene nanoribbons.

Large quantities of narrow graphene nanoribbons with edge-incorporated nitrogen atoms can be synthesized via Yamamoto coupling of molecular precursors containing nitrogen atoms followed by cyclodehydrogenation using Scholl reaction.

Facile bottom-up synthesis of graphene nanofragments and nanoribbons by thermal polymerization of pentacenes.

To prepare nanosized graphene-like molecules of a defined structure (defined-width graphene nanoribbons or nanofragments) by a simple bottom-up method, thermal polymerization reactions of pentacenes were investigated. By optimizing heat treatment temperature and initial precursor weight, long-length fused pentacene molecules were successfully obtained at least up to octamer (n = 8). Here, the d...

Cost effective synthesis and characterization of nanoporous graphene oxide membrane

Nanoporous grapheme-based materials have been widely recognized as an emerging and promising membrane material or selective layer of membranes to be used in separation [1] and purification applications [2, 3]. For instance, a pioneered modeling work reported by Cohen-Tanugi and Grossman [4, 5] shows that a graphene sheet with subnanometer pores can provide superior water transport rate and high...

A Bottom-Up Approach for the Synthesis of Highly Ordered Fullerene-Intercalated Graphene Hybrids

*Correspondence: Dimitrios Gournis, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Ioannina, Ioannina 45110, Greece e-mail: [email protected] Much of the research effort on graphene focuses on its use as a building block for the development of new hybrid nanostructures with well-defined dimensions and properties suitable for applications such as gas storage, heterogeneous cataly...