Document Type
Article
Publication Date
7-14-2023
Journal / Book Title
ACS Applied Polymer Materials
Abstract
Silk, a popular biomaterial, is used as a greener alternative of toxic reducing agent in biocompatible graphene synthesis. However, silk often forms gel uncontrollably due to its heavy-chain molecular weight and faces significant challenges in the reduction, stabilization, and dispersion process of graphene. In this contribution, we report a rapid chemical synthesis approach for a low-molecular-weight silk-inspired polymer via ring-opening and microwave-assisted Diels-Alder-aided step-growth polymerizations. This synthetic polymer with periodic sequences of hydrophilic and hydrophobic moieties not only reduces graphene oxide efficiently but also enhances the dispersibility of hydrophobic reduced graphene oxide in aqueous media.
DOI
10.1021/acsapm.3c00353
Montclair State University Digital Commons Citation
Valmonte, Zoren; Baker, Zeyad; Loor, Jianna; and Sarkar, Amrita, "Concurrent Reduction and Stabilization of Graphene Oxide Dispersion by Silk-Inspired Polymer" (2023). Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works. 618.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/chem-biochem-facpubs/618
Rights
This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Published Citation
Valmonte, Z., Baker, Z., Loor, J., & Sarkar, A. (2023). Concurrent Reduction and Stabilization of Graphene Oxide Dispersion by Silk-Inspired Polymer. ACS applied polymer materials, 5(7), 4621–4627. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsapm.3c00353