GO Dough Moldable Graphene

Feb-05-19 A moldable form of graphene called ‘GO dough’ could open the valuable material to even more applications.

As useful as graphene has proven to be, it still suffers from limitations—such as the need to be stored as a dry, explosive-prone powder or as a dilution that can take up much more space.To give this material a bit more flexibility, the team from Northwestern University created a malleable, dough-like form of graphene by mixing water with extremely high concentrations of graphene oxide. The resulting GO dough can be shaped into stable, electrically conductive, solid structures or diluted with more water to create a high-quality graphene dispersant.

According to study lead Jiaxing Huang, “I hope GO dough can help inspire new uses of graphene-based materials, just like how play dough can inspire young children’s imagination and creativity.”

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