Issue 3, 2013
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Green Chemistry

Functional multi-layer graphene–algae hybrid material formed using vortex fluidics

M. Haniff Wahid,a   Ela Eroglu,ab   Xianjue Chen,a   Steven M. Smithb  and  Colin L. Raston*ac  

* Corresponding authors

a Centre for Strategic Nano-Fabrication, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia
E-mail: colin.raston@uwa.edu.au
Fax: (+61) 8 6488 8683
Tel: (+61) 8 6488 3045

b ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, The University of Western Australia M313, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia

c School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Flinders University, Bedford Park, South Australia 5042, Australia

Abstract

Dynamic thin films confined in a microfluidic platform are effective in exfoliating graphite in water and then decorating the multi-layer 2D sheets on the surface of microalgal cells. The overall process incorporates green chemistry principles in using naturally available resources, namely algae and graphite, and using water as a benign reaction medium. Furthermore, the nanobio hybrid material is active for wastewater treatment, in removing all traces of nitrate from liquid effluents, more efficiently than the pristine microalgal cells, with the multi-layer graphene itself not showing any significant nitrate removal.

Graphical abstract: Functional multi-layer graphene–algae hybrid material formed using vortex fluidics

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Article information

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C2GC36892G
Article type
Paper
Submitted
05 Oct 2012
Accepted
13 Dec 2012
First published
13 Dec 2012

Green Chem., 2013,15, 650-655

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M. H. Wahid, E. Eroglu, X. Chen, S. M. Smith and C. L. Raston, Green Chem., 2013, 15, 650 DOI: 10.1039/C2GC36892G

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