Graphene based materials: Past, present and future

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Graphene-based polymer nanocomposites

Current status and future perspectives in atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) are presented. Special emphasis is placed on mechanistic understanding of ATRP, recent synthetic and process development, and new controlled polymer architectures enabled by ATRP. New hybrid materials based on organic/inorganic systems and natural/synthetic polymers are presented. Some current and forthcoming applications are described.

Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization (ATRP): Current Status and Future Perspectives

Much has been written about theory and practice in the law, and the tension between practitioners and theorists. Judges do not cite theoretical articles often; they rarely "apply" theories to particular cases. These arguments are not revisited. Instead the Essay explores the working and interaction of theory and practice, practitioners and theorists. The Essay starts with a story about solving a legal issue using our intellectual tools - theory, practice, and their progenies: experience and "gut." Next the Essay elaborates on the nature of theory, practice, experience and "gut." The third part of the Essay discusses theories that are helpful to practitioners and those that are less helpful. The Essay concludes that practitioners theorize, and theorists practice. They use these intellectual tools differently because the goals and orientations of theorists and practitioners, and the constraints under which they act, differ. Theory, practice, experience and "gut" help us think, remember, decide and create. They complement each other like the two sides of the same coin: distinct but inseparable.

Of Theory and Practice

Keywords: Fragmentation Chain-Transfer ; Self-Assembled Monolayers ; Walled Carbon Nanotubes ; Well-Defined Polymer ; Nitroxide-Mediated Polymerization ; Block-Copolymer Brushes ; Poly(Methyl Methacrylate) Brushes ; Transfer Raft Polymerization ; Quartz-Crystal Microbalance ; Poly(Acrylic Acid) Brushes Reference EPFL-REVIEW-148464doi:10.1021/cr900045aView record in Web of Science Record created on 2010-04-23, modified on 2017-05-10

Polymer Brushes via Surface-Initiated Controlled Radical Polymerization: Synthesis, Characterization, Properties, and Applications

Nanocomposites of chitosan and graphene oxide are prepared by simple self-assembly of both components in aqueous media. It is observed that graphene oxide is dispersed on a molecular scale in the chitosan matrix and some interactions occur between chitosan matrix and graphene oxide sheets. These are responsible for efficient load transfer between the nanofiller graphene and chitosan matrix. Compared with the pure chitosan, the tensile strength, and Young's modulus of the graphene-based materials are significantly improved by about 122 and 64%, respectively, with incorporation of 1 wt % graphene oxide. At the same time, the elongation at the break point increases remarkably. The experimental results indicate that graphene oxide sheets prefer to disperse well within the nanocomposites.

Well-Dispersed Chitosan/Graphene Oxide Nanocomposites

Synthesis and characterization of layer-aligned poly(vinyl alcohol)/graphene nanocomposites

A flexible polymer memory device

A simple strategy for synthesizing well-defined polypyrrole (PPy) nanotube, which can be used for loading silver nanoparticles without prior PPy nanotube functionalization under mild conditions is demonstrated. It is found that Ag nanoparticles could uniformly decorate onto the PPy nanotube surface in the presence of polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) to form PPy/Ag composite nanotubes. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) images give evidence of the decoration of Ag nanoparticles on the surface of PPy nanotubes. Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectra reveal the structure of PPy/Ag composite nanotubes and X-ray diffraction (XRD) directly shows the presence of Ag nanoparticles. The as-prepared PPy/Ag composite nanotubes are applied to the detection of ammonia vapor. Compared with PPy nanotubes, the introduction of metal onto PPy nanotubes is effective in promoting the chemiresistor response to ammonia. Moreover, the response behaviors of PPy/Ag composite nanotubes depend on the distribution of Ag nanoparticles in the nanocomposites.

Liang Li

Papers

Well-Dispersed Chitosan/Graphene Oxide Nanocomposites

Synthesis and characterization of layer-aligned poly(vinyl alcohol)/graphene nanocomposites

A flexible polymer memory device

Polypyrrole/silver composite nanotubes for gas sensors

Morphology-controlled fabrication of polypyrrole hydrogel for solid-state supercapacitor