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Towards industrialization of graphene oxide

氧化石墨烯的工业化进展

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Graphene oxide (GO) has demonstrated potential applications in various fields, and attracted intensive attention in industry as well. Numerous companies worldwide have been working on the industrial applications of GO-based materials in, e.g., thermal management, multifunctional composites, anti-corrosion paints, lubricants, energy storage, environment protection and biomedicals. This review presents a short summary on the proceedings of GO towards industrialization, including the large-scale production and some promising applications, by providing views on the processing strategies and challenges specifically for the industrial use of GO. This review would help the scientists in this area to find topics for overcoming challenges together with engineers.

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相关研究表明氧化石墨烯(GO)在众多领域皆具有应用潜力, 因此GO越来越受工业界的关注. 目前, 全球已涌现了许多公司, 致 力于实现GO的工业级应用, 如热管理、多功能聚合物复合材料、 防腐、润滑剂、能源、环境和生物医学等. 本文主要介绍了当前 GO工业化的发展情况, 包括GO的大规模生产以及具有市场经济 价值的应用, 并讨论了GO在工业化过程中的挑战和处理策略, 旨 在为本领域的科学家提供研究素材, 以期在工业界实现GO的规模 化应用.

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The authors acknowledge Yanlin Zhang for her assistance. This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (51772282).

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    Yufei Ma  (马宇飞) & Yaxuan Zheng  (郑雅轩)

  2. Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, CAS Key Laboratory of Materials for Energy Conversion, iChEM, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, China

    Yanwu Zhu  (朱彦武)

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Yufei Ma received his BSc and PhD degrees at Lanzhou University in 2006 and 2012, respectively, and he was a visiting graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley during 2010–2012. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Suzhou Institute of NanoTech and NanoBionics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and then joined The Sixth Element (Changzhou) Materials Technology Co., Ltd. in 2015. His research focuses on the industrial production of graphene (oxide) materials and their related applications.

Yanwu Zhu is currently a professor at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China. He received his MSc (2003) from Peking University and PhD (2007) from the National University of Singapore (NUS), both in physics. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the NUS and the University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses on the preparation, characterization and property research of graphene and other novel carbon materials.

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Ma, Y., Zheng, Y. & Zhu, Y. Towards industrialization of graphene oxide. Sci. China Mater. 63, 1861–1869 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40843-019-9462-9

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