Interesting Materials

The book titled Interesting Materials: Graphene and Graphene Oxide is structured into four chapters. In recent years a new material called graphene has emerged within the field of advanced nanomaterials and is being extensively explored by scientists and engineers. Graphene is a two-dimensional (2D) allotrope of carbon in which sp²-hybridized carbon atoms are covalently bonded in a hexagonal lattice to form a single atomic sheet. It is now understood that graphene is the fundamental building block of other carbon allotropes such as graphite single-walled/multi-walled carbon nanotubes and fullerenes. Over the past five years chemically modified graphene (CMG) has been studied for a wide range of applications-including polymer composites energy materials sensors paper-like materials field-effect transistors (FETs) and biomedical uses-thanks to its excellent electrical mechanical and thermal properties. The chemical modification of graphene oxide derived from graphite oxide has become a promising method for the large-scale production of CMG platelets.