@article{262ce353f337415483ae7b4aa098a85e,
title = "Energetic graphene oxide: Challenges and opportunities",
abstract = "Motivated by both its graphene-oriented applications and its own remarkable properties, interest in graphene oxide (GO) has widely spread across many disciplines. In parallel to the rapid progress of research, industrial-scale production of GO has emerged. GO is highly energetic, thermally unstable and can readily undergo exothermic disproportionation reactions to produce chemically modified graphene under mild heating conditions. This Review highlights the challenges and opportunities associated with GO's thermal instability such as the potential fire risk during large scale production and methods of mitigation, energy efficient way to reduce GO, photothermal patterning and sintering of graphene/polymer composites, and new syntheses using GO as an in situ power source to make nanoparticle decorated graphene composites for energy storage and catalysts.",
keywords = "Combustion, Composite materials, Energetic materials, Fire risk, Graphene, Graphene oxide, Nanoparticles, Photothermal effects, Purification, Self-propagating reactions",
author = "Deepti Krishnan and Franklin Kim and Jiayan Luo and Rodolfo Cruz-Silva and Cote, {Laura J.} and Jang, {Hee Dong} and Jiaxing Huang",
note = "Funding Information: Work presented in this review has been supported by the General Research Project of the Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources (KIGAM) funded by the Ministry of Knowledge Economy , the National Science Foundation ( SGER CMMI-0853573 and DMRCAREER 0955612 ), a gift fund from The Sony Corporation and a new faculty start-up fund from Northwestern University . We thank the NUANCE Center at Northwestern for use of their facilities. Funding Information: Laura J. Cote received her BS degree in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2007. She is currently an NSF Graduate Research Fellow at Northwestern University in the materials science and engineering department. Her Ph.D. work in the laboratory of Prof. Jiaxing Huang is focused on controlling the assembly of graphene-based sheets to better understand the material's structure–property relationships. Her work has been recognised with a Materials Research Society Graduate Student Silver Award, P.E.O. Scholar award and Josephine de Karman Fellowship. Funding Information: Jiayan Luo got his BS and MS in Chemistry from Fudan University. He is now a Ph.D. candidate in Prof. Huang's group at Northwestern. His research relates to graphene based materials and energy storage. His research has been recognized and partially supported by a 3M Graduate Fellowship and a Ryan Fellowship in Nanoscience at Northwestern. Funding Information: Jiaxing Huang is an Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and the Morris E. Fine Junior Professor in Materials and Manufacturing at Northwestern University. He received a BS in Chemical Physics from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) and a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2004, and became a Miller Research Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley before joining Northwestern in 2007. He has been a recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, the NSF CAREER Award and the inaugural ISEN Early Career Investigator Award at Northwestern.",
year = "2012",
month = apr,
doi = "10.1016/j.nantod.2012.02.003",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "7",
pages = "137--152",
journal = "Nano Today",
issn = "1748-0132",
publisher = "Elsevier",
number = "2",
}