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COLLOID AND POLYMER SCIENCE
Volume 289, Issue 8, Pages 925-932Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00396-011-2414-z
Keywords
Graphene; Aryl diazonium salt; Disk-like molecules; Noncovalent wrapping; Langmuir-Blodgett assembly; Chemical modification; Interaction; Dispersion; AFM
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- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan
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A facile and scalable preparation of dispersion of isolated graphene in various organic solvents has been developed by combining between covalent and noncovalent functionalizations of the graphene surface. Covalently functionalized graphene (FRG) was prepared by the reaction of partially reduced graphene oxide with aryl diazonium salts, followed by the graphene oxide being completely reduced with hydrazine. The resulting FRG disperse readily in organic solvents such as N,N'-dimethylformamide (DMF) and N-methyl-2-pyrrolidinone and the functionalization of graphene was characterized by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, thermogravimetric thermogram, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and Raman spectroscopy. The hydrophobic surface of FRG was noncovalently wrapped with aromatic hexakis-dodecylhexa-peri-benzocorone (HBC) by simply mixing of dispersion of FRG in DMF with toluene solution of HBC. The complexation of FRG and HBC was monitored by viewing the absorption and fluorescence spectral changes. Atomic force microscopic images confirmed that graphene was covalently and noncovalently functionalized, while keeping a two-dimensional sheet shape.
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