Issue 19, 2011
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Soft Matter

Evaporation-induced flattening and self-assembly of chemically converted graphene on a solid surface†

Xuehua Zhang,*ab   Yufei Wang,c   Satoshi Watanabe,d   Md Hemayet Uddina  and  Dan Li*c  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Particulate Fluid Processing Center, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
E-mail: xuehuaz@unimelb.edu.au

b Faculty Life and Social Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia

c Department of Materials Engineering, Monash University, VIC, Australia
E-mail: Dan.Li2@monash.edu

d Department of Chemical Engineering, Kyoto University, Nishikyo Ku, Kyoto, Japan

Abstract

Solvent evaporation is found to significantly affect the morphology and assembly of chemically converted graphene drop cast on certain solid substrates. On negatively charged substrates, drying could induce the flattening and self-assembly of a single layer of CCG in an edge-to-edge manner. A mechanism is proposed to explain these phenomena.

Graphical abstract: Evaporation-induced flattening and self-assembly of chemically converted graphene on a solid surface

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C1SM06382K
Article type
Communication
Submitted
21 Jul 2011
Accepted
29 Jul 2011
First published
19 Aug 2011

Soft Matter, 2011,7, 8745-8748

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X. Zhang, Y. Wang, S. Watanabe, M. H. Uddin and D. Li, Soft Matter, 2011, 7, 8745 DOI: 10.1039/C1SM06382K

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