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Journal of Materials Chemistry A

A novel bottom-up solvothermal synthesis of carbon nanosheets†

Wentai Wang,ab   Sandip Chakrabarti,c   Zhigang Chen,d   Zifeng Yan,a   Moses O. Tade,e   Jin Zoudf  and  Qin Li*b  

* Corresponding authors

a State Key Laboratory of Heavy Oil Processing Key Laboratory of CNPC, China University of Petroleum, Qingdao, China

b Queensland Micro- and Nanotechnology Centre, Griffith University Nathan Campus, Brisbane, Australia
E-mail: qin.li@griffith.edu.au
Fax: +61 7 555 28226
Tel: +61 7 3735 7514

c Amity Institute of Nanotechnology, Amity University Uttar Pradesh, Noida, India

d Materials Engineering, the University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia

e Department of Chemical Engineering, Curtin University, Bentley, WA 6845, Australia

f Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia

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.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C3TA13593D
Article type
Paper
Submitted
08 Sep 2013
Accepted
02 Dec 2013
First published
03 Dec 2013

J. Mater. Chem. A, 2014,2, 2390-2396

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A novel bottom-up solvothermal synthesis of carbon nanosheets

W. Wang, S. Chakrabarti, Z. Chen, Z. Yan, M. O. Tade, J. Zou and Q. Li, J. Mater. Chem. A, 2014, 2, 2390 DOI: 10.1039/C3TA13593D

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