Graphene oxide: A promising nanomaterial for energy and environmental applications

By Fen Li, Xue Jiang, Jijun Zhao, Shengbai Zhang. 2015

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Abstract Graphene oxide (GO), the functionalized graphene with oxygen-containing chemical groups, has recently attracted resurgent interests because of its superior properties such as large surface area, mechanical stability, tunable electrical and optical properties. Moreover, the surface functional groups of hydroxyl, epoxy and carboxyl make GO an excellent candidate in coordinating with other materials or molecules. Owing to the expanded structural diversity and improved overall properties, GO and its composites hold great promise for versatile applications of energy storage/conversion and environment protection, including hydrogen storage materials, photocatalyst for water splitting, removal of air pollutants and water purification, as well as electrode materials for various lithium batteries and supercapacitors. In this review, we present an overview on the current successes, as well as the challenges, of the GO-based materials for energy and environmental applications.

Subfields: Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Materials Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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Production and processing of graphene and related materials (2020, background): “This high surface to volume ratio and the mechanical strength lends itself to using GO as electrode material in energy storage and conversion [290, 291] or as filtration membrane for gas and ion separation [292, 293].”
Graphene‐based ternary composites for supercapacitors (2018, background): “In comparison with graphene, GO is nonelectrical conductive due to the sp(3) hybridization of carbon atoms and the functionalization of GO causes defects on the carbon basal plane due to the disturbance in the sp(2) hybridized carbon network of the graphene sheets.(27,28) To regain the electrical co”