1. Templated synthesis of graphene nanosheets within curling layered nanostructure of halloysite nanotubes.
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Cheng, Zhi-Lin, Cao, Bao-Chong, Wu, Pei-Rong, Ma, Lu, and Liu, Zan
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GRAPHENE synthesis , *NANOSTRUCTURED materials synthesis , *HALLOYSITE , *SCANNING electron microscopy , *X-ray diffraction - Abstract
A novel method for the templated synthesis of the multi-layer graphene nanosheets in the curling layered nanostructure of halloysite nanotubes (HNTs) was developed. The intercalation of acrylamide in the layered nanostructure of HNTs was successfully achieved by the second-step substitution method. The formation of polymer precursor as carbon source exploited the in-situ polymerization of acrylamide in the layered nanostructure. A series of characterizations such as XRD, FT-IR, Raman, XPS, UV–vis, SEM, TEM and HRTEM were used to determine the formation of graphene nanosheets in the curling layered nanostructure of HNTs. The results indicated that the as-synthesized plane-like graphene nanosheets were originated from the unfolding of the spiral spring-like graphene formed in the curling layered nanostructure of HNTs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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