A coagulation technique for purification of graphene sheets with graphene-reinforced PVA hydrogel as byproduct

Vadahanambi Sridhar; Il-Kwon Oh

doi:10.1016/j.jcis.2010.04.054

A coagulation technique for purification of graphene sheets with graphene-reinforced PVA hydrogel as byproduct

J Colloid Interface Sci. 2010 Aug 15;348(2):384-7. doi: 10.1016/j.jcis.2010.04.054. Epub 2010 Apr 24.

Authors

Vadahanambi Sridhar¹, Il-Kwon Oh

Affiliation

¹ School of Mechanical Systems Engineering, Chonnam National University, Gwang-Ju, Republic of Korea.

PMID: 20483428
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2010.04.054

Abstract

A simple and rapid coagulation method to separate graphene from partially or incompletely reduced graphene oxide is developed in this study. Our isolation technique is not only simple and effective but also can be applied to a quality control in graphene production. Interestingly, the byproduct of our technique is valuable graphene-reinforced PVA hydrogel.