Physics
Scientific paper
Dec 2010
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010njph...12l5008s&link_type=abstract
New Journal of Physics, Volume 12, Issue 12, pp. 125008 (2010).
Physics
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We have dispersed graphene in water, stabilized by a range of 12 ionic and non-ionic surfactants. In all cases, the degree of exfoliation, as characterized by flake length and thickness, was similar. The dispersed flakes were typically 750 nm long and, on average, four layers thick. However, the dispersed concentration varied from solvent to solvent. For the ionic surfactants, the concentration scaled with the square of the zeta potential of the surfactant-coated flakes. This suggests that the concentration is proportional to the magnitude of the electrostatic potential barrier, which stabilizes surfactant-coated flakes against aggregation. For the non-ionic surfactants, the dispersed graphene concentration scaled linearly with the magnitude of the steric potential barrier stabilizing the flakes. However, the data suggested that other contributions are also important.
Coleman Jonathan N.
Lotya Mustafa
Smith Jeffrey R.
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