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In the present work, we proposed a method to manufacture exfoliated graphene. This method is low cost and environmentally friendly by mechanochemical means and avoids the use of highly corrosive and dangerous reagents. Our raw material consists of natural graphite and sodium carbonate. The mix is milled followed by a citric acid treatment used as defoliation agents. The mixture consists of an equiatomic mix of graphite and sodium carbonate that is processed in a high-energy ball mill. The milled and raw mixtures are leached with an aqueous acid solution, hot refluxed, washed, and overnight dried. Observed morphological and chemical evidence exhibits a notable reduction of particle size with an important increased level of defoliation that improved the surface area values.
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This research was supported by CONACYT (Project No. 169262) and the Redes Temáticas de Nanociencias y Nanotecnología (124886). The technical assistance of P. P. Ruiz, E. T. Moye, and J. C. Cisneros is gratefully recognized.
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Estrada-Guel, I., Robles-Hernandez, F.C., Martínez-Sánchez, R. (2015). A Green Method for Graphite Exfoliation Using a Mechanochemical Route. In: Pérez Campos, R., Contreras Cuevas, A., Esparza Muñoz, R. (eds) Materials Characterization. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15204-2_18
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