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Study of Molecular-Level Dispersion of Pristine Graphene in Aqueous Media via Polyvinyl Alcohol Coil Physisorption

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LANGMUIR
卷 38, 期 51, 页码 16046-16054

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AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.2c02636

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  1. China Scholarship Council
  2. [FED 4092]

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Graphene has been widely used as a nanofiller in advanced electronic devices and nanocomposite materials. The influence of polymer concentration on graphene dispersion was studied, and a model to describe the polymer adsorption process was proposed. Understanding the polymer physisorption on 2D materials is important for producing nanocomposites with controlled nanosheet/polymer ratios and structures.
Graphene has been widely used as a nanofiller in advanced electronic devices and nanocomposite materials to achieve enhanced electronic, mechanical, and barrier properties. Adequate polymers play the role of the composite matrix and can assist in the liquid-phase exfoliation of pristine graphene without any heavy chemical modification and the detriment of the properties of graphene. This stabilization mechanism is generally attributed to the steric forces formed between the polymer-adsorbed adsorbent. However, the key influence of the polymer concentration on the maximum graphene content in the colloidal solutions is still unclear. In this study, three different molar weights of water-soluble polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) were used for graphene dispersion. The influence of the PVA concentration on the graphene dispersion was systematically studied. Based on Flory's theory, we first proposed a model to describe the polymer adsorption process in the graphene/PVA/water ternary system in the dilute regime and simulated the adsorption-free energy changes during this transformation. This model is in good agreement with the experimental results and explains the critical polymer concentration, Cc , allowing the optimization of the graphene/polymer ratio. This fundamental understanding of polymer physisorption on 2D materials provides a simple method for producing nanocomposites with controlled nanosheet/polymer ratios and structures, which are of great interest for energy devices and biomaterials.

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