Unscrolling of multi-walled carbon nanotubes : towards micrometre-scale graphene oxide sheets

• Main Authors: Wong, Colin Hong An, Pumera, Martin
• Other Authors: School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Science::Chemistry
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/101081; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/16829
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Chemical routes toward obtaining graphene materials are commonly used in the field, and one such preparation method is the unzipping of carbon nanotubes into long, thin graphene nanoribbons. In this work, we show that oxidative permanganate treatment of Scroll type multi-walled carbon nanotubes can...