EP3233726A1 - Method of producing graphene - Google Patents
Method of producing grapheneInfo
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- EP3233726A1 EP3233726A1 EP15805465.0A EP15805465A EP3233726A1 EP 3233726 A1 EP3233726 A1 EP 3233726A1 EP 15805465 A EP15805465 A EP 15805465A EP 3233726 A1 EP3233726 A1 EP 3233726A1
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- graphene
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- graphene precursor
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- C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
- C01—INORGANIC CHEMISTRY
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- C01B32/00—Carbon; Compounds thereof
- C01B32/15—Nano-sized carbon materials
- C01B32/182—Graphene
- C01B32/184—Preparation
- C01B32/19—Preparation by exfoliation
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B82—NANOTECHNOLOGY
- B82Y—SPECIFIC USES OR APPLICATIONS OF NANOSTRUCTURES; MEASUREMENT OR ANALYSIS OF NANOSTRUCTURES; MANUFACTURE OR TREATMENT OF NANOSTRUCTURES
- B82Y30/00—Nanotechnology for materials or surface science, e.g. nanocomposites
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B82—NANOTECHNOLOGY
- B82Y—SPECIFIC USES OR APPLICATIONS OF NANOSTRUCTURES; MEASUREMENT OR ANALYSIS OF NANOSTRUCTURES; MANUFACTURE OR TREATMENT OF NANOSTRUCTURES
- B82Y40/00—Manufacture or treatment of nanostructures
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- C01—INORGANIC CHEMISTRY
- C01P—INDEXING SCHEME RELATING TO STRUCTURAL AND PHYSICAL ASPECTS OF SOLID INORGANIC COMPOUNDS
- C01P2002/00—Crystal-structural characteristics
- C01P2002/80—Crystal-structural characteristics defined by measured data other than those specified in group C01P2002/70
- C01P2002/82—Crystal-structural characteristics defined by measured data other than those specified in group C01P2002/70 by IR- or Raman-data
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- C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
- C01—INORGANIC CHEMISTRY
- C01P—INDEXING SCHEME RELATING TO STRUCTURAL AND PHYSICAL ASPECTS OF SOLID INORGANIC COMPOUNDS
- C01P2004/00—Particle morphology
- C01P2004/01—Particle morphology depicted by an image
- C01P2004/04—Particle morphology depicted by an image obtained by TEM, STEM, STM or AFM
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- C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
- C01—INORGANIC CHEMISTRY
- C01P—INDEXING SCHEME RELATING TO STRUCTURAL AND PHYSICAL ASPECTS OF SOLID INORGANIC COMPOUNDS
- C01P2004/00—Particle morphology
- C01P2004/20—Particle morphology extending in two dimensions, e.g. plate-like
- C01P2004/24—Nanoplates, i.e. plate-like particles with a thickness from 1-100 nanometer
Definitions
- the invention relates to a method of producing graphene from a graphene precursor using mechanical treatment of the graphene precursor.
- the top-down route is basically the exfoliation of a graphene precursor, wherein the graphene precursor comprises natural graphite or synthetic graphite.
- the exfoliation method comprises chemical treatment of the graphene precursor, which often includes toxic chemicals.
- the graphene precursor is first treated with strong oxidants resulting in the forming of graphene oxide.
- Graphene oxide can be dispersed easily in solvents, including water, and is subsequently subjected to a reducing step by treating the graphene oxide again with chemicals, for instance with hydrazine.
- This exfoliation method requires a number of subsequent processing steps which makes this also a time consuming method. If such a method is to be carried out on an industrial scale the chemicals needed would be substantial, requiring adequate safety and environmental measures.
- the quality of the graphene resulting from this exfoliation method can be substantially less than the quality of the graphene resulting from the method according to the bottom-up route.
- one or more of the objectives of the invention are realized by providing a method for producing graphene, which comprises the steps of:
- the mechanical treatment comprises that the graphene precursor suspended in the liquid is subjected to at least two different mechanical treatments at the same time.
- graphene precursor shall mean a solution or compound comprising natural graphite or synthetic graphite.
- graphene shall refer to single layer graphene as well as to multilayer stacks of graphene comprising 20 layers or less of graphene, unless indicated differently.
- the time needed to produce graphene is considerable reduced in comparison to the usual method wherein mechanical and chemical treatment steps are carried out subsequently.
- milling times of 24 hours and more are necessary whereas with the method according the invention the time needed to carry out the method is less than 3 hours.
- the graphene produced according to the method shows a high yield of single and bilayer graphene.
- the mechanical treatment comprises a mixing operation and sonication operation.
- the milling operation is a high shear mixing operation.
- This milling operation is carried out with high shear mixers which operate at speeds in the order of 6000 - 9000 rpm.
- the sonication operation is preferably a ultrasonication operation wherein the liquid with the graphene precursor in suspension is subjected to ultrasonic waves of 20 kHz and more.
- the sound waves propagating through the liquid generate compression and rarefaction cycles, the rarefaction creating voids which collapse during compression.
- the frequency of the ultrasonication is in the range of 30 - 60 kHz, more preferably in the range of 40 - 50 kHz.
- the liquid with the graphene precursor in suspension is cooled.
- the temperature of the liquid with the graphene precursor in suspension is cooled to a temperature below 100°C. More preferably the temperature of the liquid with the graphene precursor in suspension is kept in a range between 0 - 50°C, and even more preferably to about room temperature in a range between 15 - 35°C.
- the method includes the addition of a surfactant to the liquid with the graphene precursor.
- the liquid is water and the surfactant is a water soluble surfactant.
- the surfactant is a tetra butyl ammonium surfactant or an alkylol ammonium surfactant. Good results were obtained with ANTI-TERRA ® -250, a solution of an alkylol ammonium salt of a higher molecular weight acidic polymer, a surfactant supplied by BYK Chemie GmbH.
- the surfactant is preferably added in a concentration of 0.1 - 10.0 mg/ml, preferably 0.2 - 5.0 mg/ml.
- the method according to the invention is suitable to be carried out batch- wise, but it is also possible to carry out the method in a continuous or semi- continuous process.
- fig.1 shows schematically a device to apply the method for producing graphene
- fig.2 shows a Raman diagram of the produced graphene
- fig.3 shows a TEM image and an electron diffraction diagram of the produced graphene.
- a device for applying the method comprising a vessel with a cooling liquid and a pipe system 5 for the supply and drainage of the cooling liquid from the vessel.
- the temperature of the cooling liquid is measured with a probe 1 and the temperature data is used to control the supply and drainage of the cooling liquid. With water as a cooling liquid the temperature can be controlled adequately.
- a sample cup 6 is placed containing the liquid with the graphene precursor in suspension.
- a high shear mixer 2 is provided extending with the shear generating element in the liquid with the graphene precursor in suspension.
- the shear mixer is provided with a speed controller unit 3 with which the speed of the mixture can be adjusted.
- a further temperature measuring probe 4 is immersed in the liquid with the graphene precursor in suspension and is also used to control the temperature of the cooling liquid contained in the vessel.
- a ultrasonicator 7 is immersed in the cooling liquid. By operating the ultrasonicator the liquid with the graphene precursor in suspension in sample cup 6 is subjected to the sound waves propagating from ultrasonicator 7.
- a Raman spectrum of a graphene sample obtained by the method according the invention was performed at room temperature with a Renishaw spectrometer at 514nm, with notch filters cutting at 100 cm-1 .
- the vertical axis shows the intensity of the scattered Raman signal and the horizontal axis shows the Raman shift in cm-1 when excited by a laser radiation with a wavelength of 514 nm.
- the principle peaks observed in the graphene Raman spectrum are the D, G and 2D peaks at 1350 cm-1 , 1580 cm-1 and 2700 cm-1 respectively.
- the spectrum above indicates that the synthesized material contains a high content of monolayer graphene as indicated by the very symmetrical 2D peak with a Lorentzian profile centred at 2692 cm-1 .
- the image to the left in fig. 3 shows a transmission electron micrograph of a graphene flake.
- the image to the right is an electron diffraction pattern obtained from the same sample. It shows the typical six-fold symmetry expected for graphene and graphite.
- the electron diffraction spots are labelled using Miller- Bravais indices (hkil). The ratio of identified peak intensities of 0th order and 1 st order spots is indicative of single or bilayer graphene depending on the area under the electron beam.
- Ultraviolet visible absorption spectra of the test shows the concentration of final graphene based suspension (after sonication, centrifuging at l OOOrpm for 1 hr and separating the supernatant) in the range of 0.063 - 0.1 1 mg/ltr which is much higher than values reported in literature.
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PCT/EP2015/078696 WO2016096484A1 (en) | 2014-12-19 | 2015-12-04 | Method of producing graphene |
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