A reaction that puzzled scientists for 50 years has now been explained by researchers at Ume University. Rapid structural snapshots captured how graphite transforms into graphite oxide during ...

image: Natural graphite, used as the precursor for graphene oxide production, is a highly ordered crystalline inorganic material, which is believed to be formed by decay of organic matter. It is ...

WHAT ARE THE KEYS to designing a material that rivets researchers' attention? Rare and precious elements? Previously unknown bonding configurations? How about fascinating molecular and geometric ...

Currently, a number of techniques are used to produce graphene and these include epitaxial growth, chemical vapour deposition (CVD), and thermal or mechanical exfoliation. Large scale production of ...

Chemists from Tomsk Polytechnic University, as part of a scientific collaboration and with the support of the federal program of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation ...

Traditional methods for making graphite involve heating premium needle coke and coal-tar pitch at temperatures above 3,000ºC in a process that requires several days of heating and cooling. A new ...

Although oxide recovery appeared higher in prior tests #1 and #2 using the "Prior Solvent," those tests were conducted on oxidized black mass samples. In contrast, the recent Results were achieved ...

An allotrope of carbon, graphene exists as a two-dimensional (2D) planar sheet and can be regarded as a single atomic graphite layer. Technically, graphene is a non-metal but it is usually known as a ...

A paper by Kazan Federal University appeared in early access in Carbon. Another new finding, registered by Ksenia Shukhina for the first time, was the imaginary reversibility of the C-O bond formation ...