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Personal perspectives on graphene: New graphene-related materials on the horizon

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 November 2012

Rodney S. Ruoff
Rodney S. Ruoff*
Affiliation:
Mechanical Engineering Department and Materials Science and Engineering Program, The University of Texas at Austin; r.ruoff@mail.utexas.edu
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Abstract

In this article, I describe my early interest in graphene and contributions that I and my co-authors, in particular, have made to the field, along with a brief history of the experimental discovery of graphene. I then turn to new carbon materials whose experimental syntheses might be on the horizon. One example involves using graphene as a template to generate large-area ultrathin sp3-bonded carbon sheets that could also be substitutionally doped with, for example, nitrogen atoms, as one approach to making materials of interest for quantum computing. Such large-area sp3-bonded carbon sheets hold tremendous promise for use in thermal management; as a new material for electronics and photonics; and as ultrahigh-strength components in various structures including those used in aerospace, among other applications. Another example is the class of negative-curvature carbons (NCCs) that have atom-thick walls and carbon atoms trivalently bonded to other carbon atoms. Such NCCs have a nanoscale pore structure, atom-thick walls, and exceptionally high specific surface areas, and they fill three-dimensional space in ways that suggest their use as electrode materials for ultracapacitors and batteries, as adsorbents, as support material for catalysts, and for other applications.

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C (27)crystallographic structure (102)grain size (106)morphology (111)diamond (127)energy storage (190)
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MRS Bulletin , Volume 37 , Issue 12: Graphene Fundamentals and Functionalities , December 2012 , pp. 1314 - 1318
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2012

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