Graphene and Graphene Oxide for Energy Storage

Synthesis of diamine functionalised graphene oxide and its application in the fabrication of electrically conducting reduced graphene oxide/polymer nanocomposite films

“…GO continues to draw research interest and has been widely used in various applications such as sensors, electronic devices, biomedical applications including drug delivery, water ltration, gas adsorption and preparation of nanocomposites. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7] For all these applications, the colloidal stability of the GO sheets within the solvent or polymer matrix is a prerequisite in order to control their distribution or arrangement necessary to develop high-quality GO-based nanocomposites. The stability of GO sheets is attributed to the hydrophilic functional groups such as hydroxyl (-OH) on the basal plane and epoxy (-CH(O)CH-) groups on the sheet edges.…”

Nanostructured Graphene Oxide-Based Hybrids as Anodes for Lithium-Ion Batteries

“…The lithiation mechanism and lithium storage capacity of rGO have been the subject of numerous investigations by means of first-principle calculations and by experimental studies such as galvanostatic charge/discharge (GCD) measurements, cyclic voltammetry (CV), and differential capacity curves [69][70][71][72][73][74][75][76][77]. The theoretical capacity of graphene is 744 mAh g −1 if Li can be absorbed on both sides up to the chemical formula Li 2 C 6 , and 1116 mAh g −1 if Li can be trapped at the benzene rings up to LiC 2 , but these targets have not been achieved by using pure graphene materials [78].…”