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Carbon

Volume 111, January 2017, Pages 617-621
Carbon

Letter to the editor
One-step fast electrochemical fabrication of water-dispersible graphene

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Abstract

Aided by Oxone, water-dispersible graphene of 2–5 atomic layers was electrochemically fabricated from graphite in one step without any extra stabilizers or additives. Oxone as a novel electrolyte and the electrochemically enhanced oxidation were responsible for the excellent aqueous dispersibility, effective exfoliation and the reasonably high yield (up to 60.1%).

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Acknowledgment

This work was supported by projects from The National Science and Technology Major Project (2011ZX02707) and The Chinese Academy of Sciences (XDA02040000).

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