Issue 44, 2012

Assembling of graphene oxide in an isolated dissolving droplet

Abstract

Controlling of the morphology and assembly of graphene oxide (GO) is important in the structure design of carbon materials using GO sheets as building blocks. In this work, we have studied GO assembling driven by the dissolution of a droplet immersed in a surrounding liquid phase. The as-assembled GO structures were highly crumpled with exotic morphology, which we refer to as GO snowballs. The detailed structure of GO snowballs was closely related to the dissolution dynamics of the droplet, which could be adjusted by the composition of the surrounding liquid.

Graphical abstract: Assembling of graphene oxide in an isolated dissolving droplet

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
02 Aug 2012
Accepted
20 Sep 2012
First published
11 Oct 2012

Soft Matter, 2012,8, 11249-11254

Assembling of graphene oxide in an isolated dissolving droplet

H. Yang, Y. Wang, Y. Song, L. Qiu, S. Zhang, D. Li and X. Zhang, Soft Matter, 2012, 8, 11249 DOI: 10.1039/C2SM26794B

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