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2D‐Crystal‐Based Functional Inks

Year: 2016

Type: article

Abstract: The possibility to produce and process graphene, related 2D crystals, and heterostructures in the liquid phase makes them promising materials for an ever-growing class of applications as composite materials, sensors, in flexible optoelectronics, and energy storage and conversion. In particular, the ability to formulate functional inks with on-demand rheological and morphological properties, i.e., lateral size and thickness of the dispersed 2D crystals, is a step forward toward the development of industrial-scale, reliable, inexpensive printing/coating processes, a boost for the full exploitation of such nanomaterials. Here, the exfoliation strategies of graphite and other layered crystals are reviewed, along with the advances in the sorting of lateral size and thickness of the exfoliated sheets together with the formulation of functional inks and the current development of printing/coating processes of interest for the realization of 2D-crystal-based devices.

Source: Advanced Materials

DOI: 10.1002/adma.201506410

Authors: Francesco Bonaccorso, Antonino Bartolotta, Jonathan N. Coleman, Claudia Backes

Institutions: Italian Institute of Technology, Institute for Chemical and Physical Processes, Trinity College Dublin, Heidelberg University

Language: English

Topic: Graphene research and applications

Subfield: Materials Chemistry

Field: Materials Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2415897006

FWCI: 22.15

Cites: 418

Cited by: 449

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