Charge-tunable graphene dispersions in water made with amphoteric pyrene derivatives
| Autor: | Xavier Just-Baringo, Aliaksandr Baidak, Yuyoung Shin, Cinzia Casiraghi, Igor Larrosa, Liam H. Isherwood, Kostas Kostarelos, Marco Zarattini |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Materials science
Biomedical Engineering Energy Engineering and Power Technology Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering law.invention symbols.namesake chemistry.chemical_compound National Graphene Institute law Materials Chemistry Chemical Engineering (miscellaneous) Dalton Nuclear Institute Graphite Surface charge Graphene Process Chemistry and Technology Exfoliation joint ResearchInstitutes_Networks_Beacons/dalton_nuclear_institute Chemical engineering chemistry Chemistry (miscellaneous) Transmission electron microscopy ResearchInstitutes_Networks_Beacons/national_graphene_institute symbols Pyrene Raman spectroscopy Dispersion (chemistry) |
| Zdroj: | Shin, Y, Just-baringo, X, Zarattini, M, Isherwood, L, Baidak, A, Kostarelos, K, Larrosa, I & Casiraghi, C 2019, ' Charge-tunable graphene dispersions in water made with amphoteric pyrene derivatives ', Molecular Systems Design & Engineering . https://doi.org/10.1039/C9ME00024K |
| ISSN: | 2058-9689 |
| DOI: | 10.1039/c9me00024k |
| Popis: | Liquid-phase exfoliation (LPE) of graphite shows great potential as mass scalable and low-cost method for production of solution-processed graphene, which can be used for a wide range of applications. Due to the hydrophobic nature of graphene, a stabilising agent is needed to exfoliate graphite in water - in particular, pyrene derivatives have been shown to be very effective at exfoliating graphite, by producing either positively or negatively charged dispersions, depending on the functional group used.In this work we have synthesised amphoteric amino acid-based pyrene derivatives, using amino acid-based functional groups (lysine and taurine), and tested them as exfoliating agent for the LPE of graphene. Atomic Force Microscopy shows the flakes to have average size between 100 – 300 nm, while qualitative Raman analysis shows the dispersion to be composed mainly by single and few-layer flakes, as also confirmed by Transmission Electron Microscopy. Finally, we demonstrate that the surface charge of graphene can be adjusted by a systematic change of the pH level. Although both stabilisers demonstrated to be able to exfoliate graphite in water, pyrene-based lysine produces more concentrated and stable graphene dispersion, whose surface charge changes between positive to negative depending on pH level. In contrast, sedimentation of the dispersed material was observed at extreme pH for graphene dispersions obtained with pyrene-substituted taurine. This is attributed to the low pKa of the sulfonic group in taurine, which remains negatively charged even at very low pH. |
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