As a building block for carbon materials of all other dimensionalities (such as 0D buckyball, 1D nanotube, 3D graphite), the two-dimensional (2D) single atomic carbon sheet ofgraphene has emerged as an attractive candidate for various applications due to its unique structure and properties. Likeother materials, however, a 2D graphitic material that possesses desirable bulk properties rarely features the surface characteristics required for certain specific applications. Therefore, surface functionalization is essential, and researchers have devised various covalent and non-covalent chemistries for making graphitic materials with the bulk and surface properties needed for various specific applications. Judicious application of these <i>site-selective</i>reactions to graphitic materials has opened up a large variety of multifunctional applications, including energy conversion and storage devices, flexible optoelectronics, chemical/bio-sensors, dry adhesives, to name a few.

Controlled functionalization of 2D graphitic materials for multifunctional applications

256th National Meeting (2018)

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