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Improving visible light photocatalytic inactivation of E. coli by inducing highly efficient radical pathways through peroxymonosulfate activation using 3-D, surface-enhanced, reduced graphene oxide (rGO) aerogels
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Identifying Chemical Functionalization on Individual Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene by Local Vibrational Fingerprinting
Klaus Kern, Kannan Balasubramanian
Chemical functionalization of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and graphene allows for fine-tuning their physical and chemical properties to realize fascinating new fundamental phenomena as well as exotic applications. A primary challenge in such endeavors is the n ...
Amer Chemical Soc2015Graphene
We report a full study of graphene synthesis by CVD on Cu surface. Two CVD methods have been developed. The first is a static one, which yields monolayer of graphene at low pressure of methane in 3 minutes at 1000 C. The second one is an equimolar method w ...
EPFL2015Tunable Enhancement of Raman Scattering in Graphene-Nanoparticle Hybrids
Klaus Kern, Kannan Balasubramanian
The realization of graphene-gold-nanoparticle (G-AuNP) hybrids is presented here through a versatile electrochemical approach, which allows the continuous tuning of the size and density of the particles obtainable on the graphene surface. Raman scattering ...
Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2014Electron spin lifetime in chemically synthesized graphene sheets
Graphene is theoretically expected to be a highly suitable material for spintronic and quantum computation applications. Current experimental reports assign surprisingly low spin lifetimes to graphene and related carbon structures. Recently, we showed a so ...
Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2014Functionalized Carbon Nanostructures from Oligoyne Carboxylates
Functional nanostructured carbon materials, including two-dimensionally extended nanosheets, offer
intriguing perspectives for applications in emerging technologies such as hydrogen storage, lithium
storage, transition metal free catalysis, or solar abso ...
EPFL2014Oxygen Reduction at Soft Interfaces Catalyzed by In Situ-Generated Reduced Graphene Oxide
Hubert Girault, Fernando Cortes Salazar, Micheal Diarmaid Scanlon, Véronique Amstutz, Haiqiang Deng
Face to face: Flakes of reduced graphene oxide, synthesized in situ at the liquid/liquid interface from a graphene-oxide precursor, are capable of catalyzing the biphasic reduction of protons to hydrogen peroxide in the presence of molecular oxygen and an ...
Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2014Spatially Dispersive Graphene Single and Parallel Plate Waveguides: Analysis and Circuit Model
Julien Perruisseau-Carrier, Juan Sebastian Gomez Diaz
The propagation of surface waves along spatially dispersive graphene-based 2-D waveguides is investigated in detail. Graphene is characterized using a full-k(rho) conductivity model under the relaxation-time approximation, which allows to obtain analytical ...
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2013RF-plasma pretreatment of surfaces leading to TiO2 coatings with improved optical absorption and OH-radical production
César Pulgarin, Juan Kiwi, Christophe Roussel, Sami Rtimi, Oualid Baghriche
Evidence is presented for the RF pretreatment of polyester enhances the TiO2 coating generation of oxidative species/radicals under a low level actinic light irradiation. After 30 min RF-plasma pretreatment of the polyester samples, the fastest bacterial i ...
Elsevier2013Self-Assembled Electrical Biodetector Based on Reduced Graphene Oxide
Klaus Kern, Subramanian Sundaram, Kannan Balasubramanian, Ravi Shankar Sundaram
Large-scale fabrication of graphene-based devices is an aspect of great importance for various applications including chemical and biological sensing. Toward this goal, we present here a novel chemical route for the site-specific realization of devices bas ...
2012Propagation of hybrid TM-TE surface plasmons on magnetically-biased graphene sheets
The propagation of plasmons on magnetically biased graphene sheets is addressed. The analysis is based on the transverse resonance method extended to handle the graphene conductivity tensor and allows easily accounting for substrate effects. A transcendent ...
American Institute of Physics2012