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Chemical Communications

Vortex fluidic exfoliation of graphite and boron nitride†

Xianjue Chen,a   John F. Dobsonb  and  Colin L. Raston*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Centre for Strategic Nano-Fabrication, School of Biomedical, Biomolecular and Chemical Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia
E-mail: colin.raston@uwa.edu.au
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Tel: +61 8 6488 3045

b Micro and Nanotechnology Centre, Griffith University, Nathan, Queensland 4111, Australia
E-mail: j.dobson@griffith.edu.au
Fax: +61 7 3735 7656
Tel: +61 7 3735 7441

Abstract

Graphite is exfoliated into graphene by shearing vortex fluidic films of N-methyl-pyrrolidone (NMP), as a controlled process for preparing oxide free graphene, and for exfoliating the corresponding boron nitride sheets.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C2CC17611D
Article type
Communication
Submitted
06 Dec 2011
Accepted
24 Jan 2012
First published
25 Jan 2012

Chem. Commun., 2012,48, 3703-3705

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Vortex fluidic exfoliation of graphite and boron nitride

X. Chen, J. F. Dobson and C. L. Raston, Chem. Commun., 2012, 48, 3703 DOI: 10.1039/C2CC17611D

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