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Efficient synthesis of graphene sheets using pyrrole as a reducing agent

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In this paper, the authors used pyrrole as a reducing agent for the synthesis of graphene and showed that the resulting graphene sheets were readily dispersible in solvents and easily to process.
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This article is published in Carbon.The article was published on 2011-09-01. It has received 198 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Graphene oxide paper & Graphene.

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Chemical functionalization of graphene and its applications

TL;DR: A detailed review on the advances of chemical functionalization of graphene is presented in this article, where the surface modification of graphene oxide followed by reduction has been carried out to obtain functionalized graphene.
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Chemical reduction of graphene oxide: a synthetic chemistry viewpoint

TL;DR: The current state-of-the-art in graphene oxide reduction, consisting of more than 50 types of reducing agent, will be reviewed from a synthetic chemistry point of view to understand the efficiency of these reducing agents for the reduction of graphene oxide.
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Green reduction of graphene oxide by aqueous phytoextracts

TL;DR: In this article, the reduction of graphene oxide (GO) by phytochemicals was investigated using aqueous leaf extracts of Colocasia esculenta and Mesua ferrea Linn.
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Synthesis of graphene

TL;DR: In this article, a review summarizes the exfoliation of graphene by mechanical, chemical and thermal reduction and chemical vapor deposition and mentions their advantages and disadvantages, and indicates recent advances in controllable synthesis of graphene, illuminates the problems, and prospects the future development in this field.
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Recent advances in the efficient reduction of graphene oxide and its application as energy storage electrode materials

TL;DR: A detailed description of the improvement in physiochemical properties of reduced GO (RGO) compared to pure GO is provided and new environmentally friendly types of reducing agents that can efficiently remove oxygen functionalities from the surface of GO are proposed.
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Electric Field Effect in Atomically Thin Carbon Films

TL;DR: Monocrystalline graphitic films are found to be a two-dimensional semimetal with a tiny overlap between valence and conductance bands and they exhibit a strong ambipolar electric field effect.
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Synthesis of graphene-based nanosheets via chemical reduction of exfoliated graphite oxide

TL;DR: In this paper, a colloidal suspension of exfoliated graphene oxide sheets in water with hydrazine hydrate results in their aggregation and subsequent formation of a high surface area carbon material which consists of thin graphene-based sheets.
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Graphene-based composite materials

TL;DR: The bottom-up chemical approach of tuning the graphene sheet properties provides a path to a broad new class of graphene-based materials and their use in a variety of applications.
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Two-dimensional atomic crystals

TL;DR: By using micromechanical cleavage, a variety of 2D crystals including single layers of boron nitride, graphite, several dichalcogenides, and complex oxides are prepared and studied.
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