Development of methodology to obtain graphene chemically

• Grant number: 15/10169-8
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: June 01, 2015
• End date: December 31, 2017
• Field of knowledge: Engineering - Electrical Engineering - Telecommunications
• Principal Investigator: Eunezio Antonio de Souza
• Grantee: Joana Claudio Pieretti
• Host Institution: Instituto Mackenzie de Pesquisas em Grafeno e Nanotecnologias (Mackgraphe). Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie (UPM). Instituto Presbiteriano Mackenzie. São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 12/50259-8 - Graphene: photonics and opto-electronics: UPM-NUS collaboration, AP.SPEC

Abstract

In 2010 Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov won the Nobel Prize in Physics due to their innovative experiments with graphene, a two-dimensional material consisting of carbon atoms with sp2 hybridization. This new material has the thickness of an atom and has outstanding electrical and mechanical properties (NOBEL PRIZE, 2012). Its synthesis may be done by chemical vapor deposition (CVD), micromechanical exfoliation of graphite, electrically insulating epitaxial growth on surfaces or chemical reduction of graphene oxide. In all the procedures mentioned last is the most suitable for obtaining large scale graphene (Liao et al, 2011).Various reducing agents have been employed to obtain graphene from graphite oxide (PARK & Ruoff, 2009) and this work will investigate whether it can be accomplished with flavonoids.

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

PIERETTI, JOANA C.; TREVISAN, TAYNA B.; DE MORAES, MARIA M. M.; DE SOUZA, EUNEZIO A.; DOMINGUES, SERGIO H.. High capacitive rGO/WO3 nanocomposite: the simplest and fastest route of preparing it. APPLIED NANOSCIENCE, v. 10, n. 1, p. 165-175, JAN 2020. (15/10169-8)