Aerosol synthesis of cargo-filled graphene nanosacks

Yantao Chen; Fei Guo; Ashish Jachak; Sang Pil Kim; Dibakar Datta; Jingyu Liu; Indrek Kulaots; Charles Vaslet; Hee Dong Jang; Jiaxing Huang; Agnes Kane; Vivek B. Shenoy; Robert H. Hurt

doi:10.1021/nl2045952

Aerosol synthesis of cargo-filled graphene nanosacks

Yantao Chen, Fei Guo, Ashish Jachak, Sang Pil Kim, Dibakar Datta, Jingyu Liu, Indrek Kulaots, Charles Vaslet, Hee Dong Jang, Jiaxing Huang, Agnes Kane, Vivek B. Shenoy^*, Robert H. Hurt

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Abstract

Water microdroplets containing graphene oxide and a second solute are shown to spontaneously segregate into sack-cargo nanostructures upon drying. Analytical modeling and molecular dynamics suggest the sacks form when slow-diffusing graphene oxide preferentially accumulates and adsorbs at the receding air-water interface, followed by capillary collapse. Cargo-filled graphene nanosacks can be nanomanufactured by a simple, continuous, scalable process and are promising for many applications where nanoscale materials should be isolated from the environment or biological tissue.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1996-2002
Number of pages	7
Journal	Nano letters
Volume	12
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/nl2045952
State	Published - Apr 11 2012

Keywords

Graphene
biocompatibility
core-shell structures
encapsulation
folding
graphene oxide

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Chemistry(all)
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Condensed Matter Physics
Mechanical Engineering

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