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I'm a third year physics undergraduate and I want to make 3D Graphene - without spending a fortune.
This is my background:
I found this review article by Jiang and Fan (Design of advanced porous graphene materials: from graphene nanomesh to 3D architectures) to be very helpful. From what I've understood, the main methods are hydrothermal and CVD. CVD involves using nickel foam, and at $250 a sheet Marketech Intl, Inc. - Nickel Foam is a no-no. However, hydrothermal methods such as this one Porous 3D graphene-based bulk materials with exceptional high surface area and excellent conductivity for supercapacitors which use graphene oxide and surcose seems more promising.
In line with this, I've done research on graphene oxide (a precurser to many graphene-based products), and have read about the Hummer's method, the Improved Hummer's Method (http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nn1006368) and have also watched Robert Murray-Smith's videos (www.youtube.com/user/RobertMurraySmit[/URL]).
Now for my question:
I read this article [URL="http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2013/131216/ncomms3905/full/ncomms3905.html"]Three-dimensional strutted graphene grown by substrate-free sugar blowing for high-power-density supercapacitors[/URL] which has a seemingly simple and interesting method for synthesis of 3D graphene foam, which I would very much like to make. But upon reading the article, I'm facing a couple of problems:
1) In the Methods section of the paper use argon gas is used for the ambient gas in the tube furnace. Under what pressure does this take place? Does it have to be a tube furnace, or will any other furnace with programmable temperature work?
2) Is the glucose mixed directly with amonnium salt, or is it dispersed in a solution?
3) In the diagram, glucose is converted to meldonin at ~250C, then it is heated to ~1350C. Is the melanoidin conversion carried out in ambient conditions, and then the sample cooled to room temprature, or is this a one step process? What exactly happens? Can I carry this out in lower temprature, say ~ 900C at the cost of lower quality?
[URL]http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2013/131216/ncomms3905/images/ncomms3905-f4.jpg
I've sent a email to Dr Yoshio Bando a couple of days ago, but I haven't yet got an answer. I'm worried that I wasn't very polite.
This is my background:
I found this review article by Jiang and Fan (Design of advanced porous graphene materials: from graphene nanomesh to 3D architectures) to be very helpful. From what I've understood, the main methods are hydrothermal and CVD. CVD involves using nickel foam, and at $250 a sheet Marketech Intl, Inc. - Nickel Foam is a no-no. However, hydrothermal methods such as this one Porous 3D graphene-based bulk materials with exceptional high surface area and excellent conductivity for supercapacitors which use graphene oxide and surcose seems more promising.
In line with this, I've done research on graphene oxide (a precurser to many graphene-based products), and have read about the Hummer's method, the Improved Hummer's Method (http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nn1006368) and have also watched Robert Murray-Smith's videos (www.youtube.com/user/RobertMurraySmit[/URL]).
Now for my question:
I read this article [URL="http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2013/131216/ncomms3905/full/ncomms3905.html"]Three-dimensional strutted graphene grown by substrate-free sugar blowing for high-power-density supercapacitors[/URL] which has a seemingly simple and interesting method for synthesis of 3D graphene foam, which I would very much like to make. But upon reading the article, I'm facing a couple of problems:
1) In the Methods section of the paper use argon gas is used for the ambient gas in the tube furnace. Under what pressure does this take place? Does it have to be a tube furnace, or will any other furnace with programmable temperature work?
2) Is the glucose mixed directly with amonnium salt, or is it dispersed in a solution?
3) In the diagram, glucose is converted to meldonin at ~250C, then it is heated to ~1350C. Is the melanoidin conversion carried out in ambient conditions, and then the sample cooled to room temprature, or is this a one step process? What exactly happens? Can I carry this out in lower temprature, say ~ 900C at the cost of lower quality?
[URL]http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2013/131216/ncomms3905/images/ncomms3905-f4.jpg
I've sent a email to Dr Yoshio Bando a couple of days ago, but I haven't yet got an answer. I'm worried that I wasn't very polite.
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