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Catalytic Materials: Nanofibers—From Research to Manufacture

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Graphene nanofibers are materials that display extraordinary properties suitable for a number of advanced energy storage devices as well as chemical processes. These solids offer the most direct route for the manufacture of bulk quantities of high quality graphene . The cost of producing these materials on a commercial scale presents a major challenge, which we have sought to overcome via the use of natural gas as a source of carbon. The key breakthrough in the process has been the design of a catalyst system that is capable of generating high purity graphene nanofibers and hydrogen in a very efficient manner.

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Rodriguez, N.M., Baker, R.T.K. (2016). Catalytic Materials: Nanofibers—From Research to Manufacture. In: Madsen, L., Svedberg, E. (eds) Materials Research for Manufacturing. Springer Series in Materials Science, vol 224. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23419-9_7

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