Improved Graphene Production by Rapid Thermal Exfoliation of Graphene Oxide for Application in Energy Storage

Graphene and related materials remain the most promising electrode materials and additives for use in energy storage devices such as batteries and supercapacitors due to the potentially high surface area, high aspect ratio and electrical conductivity. Unfortunately, it remains challenging to achieve single layers of graphene using scalable methods of production. The proposed work aims to design a flow-through reactor capable of rapidly expanding graphene oxide powders to reduced graphene oxide in order to study how precursor morphology and reactor conditions affect the yield of single layers produced by this high throughput method. This will allow the team to engineer improved, higher surface area electrode materials.

Faculty Supervisor:

Michael Pope

Student:

Partner:

Universität Duisburg-Essen

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Clean Technology; Advanced Manufacturing; Nanotechnology; Quantum Science

University:

University of Waterloo

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