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NANOSCALE
Volume 3, Issue 5, Pages 2169-2174Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c0nr00923g
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- Natural Science Foundation of China
- China Academy of Engineering Physics [50902070]
- China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [20100481146]
- Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu province [BK2009391]
- Jiangsu Planned Projects for Postdoctoral Research Funds [1002015C]
- NJUST [AE88008, ZDJH07]
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A series of polyethylene glycol (PEG) functionalized graphene sheet hybrid materials (FGHMs) have been successfully synthesized via ester linkages. Interestingly, our products can be dispersed in both polar/protic solvents and nonpolar/nonprotic ones, which differ significantly from previously reported systems and are of great value in the wide-spread application of these carbon nanosheet based materials by solution-phase processing. Furthermore, the addition of PEG-modified carbon nanosheets as nanofillers significantly improves the thermal stability of the bulk polymers. In our case, an increase of 35 K in thermal stability can be obtained for PEG4000 after filling with as low as 1 wt % of the PEG modified carbon sheets, suggesting their great potential as novel nanofillers in industry.
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