A novel bottom-up solvothermal synthesis of carbon nanosheets

Wang, W.; Chakrabarti, S.; Chen, Z.; Yan, Z.; Tade, Moses; Zou, J.; Li, Qin

doi:10.1039/c3ta13593d

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Authors

Wang, W.

Chakrabarti, S.

Chen, Z.

Yan, Z.

Tade, Moses

Zou, J.

Li, Qin

Date

2014

Type

Journal Article

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Wang, W. and Chakrabarti, S. and Chen, Z. and Yan, Z. and Tade, M. and Zou, J. and Li, Q. 2014. A novel bottom-up solvothermal synthesis of carbon nanosheets. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 2: pp. 2390-2396.

Source Title

Journal of Materials Chemistry A

DOI

10.1039/c3ta13593d

ISSN

2050-7488

School

Department of Chemical Engineering

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/19788

Collection

Curtin Research Publications

Abstract

We report a bottom-up one-step solvothermal synthesis of thin layered carbon nanosheets (CNSs) by dehydrating glycerol with concentrated sulfuric acid in the presence of melamine. In this synthesis, melamine plays a critical role in the formation of the thin-layered CNS. This CNS was found to be a highly effective adsorption material: its adsorption of methylene blue (MB) is considerably faster than GO with a maximum adsorption capacity of MB at 585 mg g−1, comparable to most of the other carbon based nanomaterials.