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Facile room temperature synthesis of large graphene sheets from simple molecules.

ABSTRACT: The largest graphene sample obtained through a chemical reaction under ambient conditions (temperature and pressure), using simple molecules such as benzene or n-hexane as precursors, is reported. Starting from a heterogeneous reaction between solid iron chloride and the molecular precursor (benzene and n-hexane) at a water/oil interface, graphene sheets with micrometric lateral size are obtained as a film deposited at the liquid/liquid (L/L) interface. The pathway involving the cyclization and aromatization of n-hexane to benzene at the L/L interface, and the sequence of conversion of benzene to biphenyl and biphenyl to condensed rings (which originates the graphene structures) was followed by different characterization techniques and a mechanistic proposal is presented. Finally, we demonstrate that this route can be extended for the synthesis of N-doped graphene, using pyridine as the molecular precursor.

SUBMITTER: Lopes LC

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6167947 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Facile room temperature synthesis of large graphene sheets from simple molecules.

Lopes Laís C LC da Silva Lidya C LC Vaz Boniek G BG Oliveira Alfredo R M ARM Oliveira Marcela M MM Rocco Maria L M MLM Orth Elisa S ES Zarbin Aldo J G AJG

Chemical science 20180814 37

The largest graphene sample obtained through a chemical reaction under ambient conditions (temperature and pressure), using simple molecules such as benzene or n-hexane as precursors, is reported. Starting from a heterogeneous reaction between solid iron chloride and the molecular precursor (benzene and n-hexane) at a water/oil interface, graphene sheets with micrometric lateral size are obtained as a film deposited at the liquid/liquid (L/L) interface. The pathway involving the cy ...[more]

PMID: 30294418

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