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Microwave-Assisted Modification of Graphene and Its Derivatives: Synthesis, Reduction and Exfoliation

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Graphene Functionalization Strategies

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Abstract

Nowadays, microwave heating to graphene derivatives for carbon based materials processing (reduction, exfoliation and modifications) is new approach because strong interaction with microwave radiation, fast and localized heating can be achieved in a very short time. For graphene derivatives, microwave heating method is facile, simple, fast, controllable and energy-saving and provides an effective way to control nanoparticle size distribution on the surfaces. By tuning the microwave irradiation power, time and temperature different graphene based morphologies has been studied. For clear understanding, this chapter has been written basically into two parts. In first part, the literature published on interaction of microwave with grapheme derivatives and their transformations into reduced graphene oxide have been surveyed. The oxygen containing functional groups in different forms on surfaces of graphene derivatives strongly interact with microwave incident photons and easily detached from its surfaces. By microwave heating, graphite oxide/graphene oxide are easily reduced to very less oxygen containing graphene and also exfoliate into high surface containing porous graphene. In second part, graphene derivatives have been modified with different kind of metal/metal oxide for various kinds of applications. It is focused on the latest developments and the current status of graphene-metal oxide research using microwave processing. The high power microwave irradiation on graphene derivatives with metal oxide offers homogenous reaction environment and leads to controlled shape, size distribution of nanoparticles without any agglomeration. Detailed overview has been discussed on the possibilities and achievements of graphene derivatives–metal oxide research using microwave-based heating approaches. Microwave-assisted hydrothermal/solvothermal methods have also been described to synthesize metal oxides loaded graphene derivatives.

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Devi, N., Kumar, R., Singh, R.K. (2019). Microwave-Assisted Modification of Graphene and Its Derivatives: Synthesis, Reduction and Exfoliation. In: Khan, A., Jawaid, M., Neppolian, B., Asiri, A. (eds) Graphene Functionalization Strategies. Carbon Nanostructures. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9057-0_12

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