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Analysis of carbon-based nanomaterials using Raman spectroscopy: principles and case studies

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The advent of new instrumentation techniques provides the breakthrough for Raman spectroscopy to establish as powerful non-invasive method for material characterization. In recent years, carbon-based materials and particularly nanomaterials emerged as the subject of enormous scientific and technological attention due to their outstanding mechanical, electrical and thermal properties. We present a brief account on the unprecedented opportunity of Raman spectroscopy for insight into the behaviour of electrons and phonons in carbon nanomaterials. Raman scattering techniques have been highlighted which can be exclusively used to understand the critical dependence of the ratio of sp2 (graphite-like) to sp3 (diamond-like) bonds with the physical properties of honeycomb carbon lattice. The different case studies carried out in our laboratory were included to underline the fact that the Raman is the backbone of non-destructive, fast and high-resolution characterization tool to provide the maximum structural features, lattice dynamics and electronic information in carbon materials at various length scales.

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The datasets used and analysed during the case studies are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request. The authors declare that all other data supporting the findings of this study are available within the paper.

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Acknowledgements

We acknowledge the help and support of the scientists, research scholars and the staff members of the Directorate of Nanomaterials and Technologies, DMSRDE, for the discussion and suggestions. We are grateful to the Director, DMSRDE, Kanpur, for help, support, guidance and permission to publish our experimental findings.

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The bulk amounts of the case studies were carried out in the projects funded by Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO), New Delhi, India.

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    Debmalya Roy & Sanjay Kanojia

  2. DMSRDE, Kanpur, 208013, India

    Kingsuk Mukhopadhyay & N Eswara Prasad

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DR conceptualized and designed the case studies; acquisition of data was carried out by SK; SK, DR, KM and NEP analysed, interpreted the data and drafted the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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Roy, D., Kanojia, S., Mukhopadhyay, K. et al. Analysis of carbon-based nanomaterials using Raman spectroscopy: principles and case studies. Bull Mater Sci 44, 31 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12034-020-02327-9

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