Issue 36, 2013

The chemistry of pristine graphene

Abstract

Graphene is a unique material with outstanding mechanical and electronic properties. For solution processes graphene layers have to be stabilized by means of molecular or supramolecular chemical derivatization, prior to their transfer to solid substrates. The most common chemical methodology for the preparation of graphene involves the formation of graphene oxide under highly oxidizing conditions, which even after reduction, lacks the electronic quality of pristine graphene. Presently, there is increasing concern in the chemical community about the starting material quality, and recent efforts are directed to wet chemical approaches toward high-quality graphene flakes which encompass the use of graphite as initial material. In addition, epitaxial growth of graphene on metallic surfaces is becoming a powerful technique for the production of pristine graphene with a control on its electronic properties, somehow due to the supramolecular interaction with the metallic surface. Current approaches for the preparation of modified pristine graphene are the aim of this review.

Graphical abstract: The chemistry of pristine graphene

Article information

Article type
Feature Article
Submitted
14 Dec 2012
Accepted
11 Mar 2013
First published
14 Mar 2013

Chem. Commun., 2013,49, 3721-3735

The chemistry of pristine graphene

L. Rodríguez-Pérez, M. xmlns="http://www.rsc.org/schema/rscart38"> <. Á. Herranz and N. Martín, Chem. Commun., 2013, 49, 3721 DOI: 10.1039/C3CC38950B

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