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Hierarchical Amination of Graphene for Electrochemical Energy Storage

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Surface Chemistry and Macroscopic Assembly of Graphene for Application in Energy Storage

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Recently, three-dimensional (3D) hierarchical architectures of nanosheets, nanoplates, nanotubes, nanowires, and nanospheres have attracted great interest in energy conversion and storage, nano-composites, sustainable catalysis, optoelectronics, and drug delivery systems, due to their outstanding electrochemical performance such as its ultrahigh surface-to-volume ratio, high porosity, strong mechanical strength, excellent electrical conductivity and fast mass, and electron transport kinetics [1, 2]. For example, various nanosheets, such as graphene and graphene oxide [3–9], layered double hydroxides [10], and natural clays [11], have been successfully applied in energy conversion and storage.

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Chen, CM. (2016). Hierarchical Amination of Graphene for Electrochemical Energy Storage. In: Surface Chemistry and Macroscopic Assembly of Graphene for Application in Energy Storage. Springer Theses. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48676-4_3

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