Preface ....................................................... vii
Editors ...................................................... xvii
Contributors .................................................. xix
1 Graphite: Structure, Properties, and Applications ............ 1
John W. Zondlo
2 Electronic Transport in Graphene: Theory and Applications ... 59
Pierre Cormier
3 Different Characterization Techniques to Evaluate Graphene
and Its Properties .......................................... 95
Viera Skákalová, Dong Su Lee, and Alan B. Kaiser
4 Electrochemical Exfoliation: A Cost-Effective Approach to
Produce Graphene Nanoplatelets in Bulk Quantities .......... 139
Martin Matis, Urszula Kosidlo, Friedemann Tonner, Carsten
Glanz, and Ivica Kolaric
5 Exfoliation of Graphite toward Graphene from Lab to
Industry ................................................... 169
Weifeng Zhao and Guohua Chen
6 Graphene-Based Materials for Clean Energy Applications ..... 199
Bin Luo, Minghui Liang, Michael Giersig, and Linjie Zhi
7 Electrochemistry of Graphene-Based Nanomaterials ........... 263
Martin Pumera
8 Graphene-Polymer Composites for Pulse Lasers ............... 283
Qiaoliang Bao, Dingyuan Tang, Han Zhang, and Kian Ping Loh
9 Epoxy Nanocomposites: Graphene a Promising Filler .......... 315
Iti Srivastava, Mohammad A. Rafiee, Fazel Yavari, Javad
Rafiee, and Nikhil Koratkar
10 Nanoparticles and Polymer Nanocomposites ................... 353
Musa R. Kamal and Jorge Uribe-Calderon
11 Polymer-Functionalized Graphene via Atom Transfer Radical
Polymerization Route for Graphene-Based Polymer
Nanocomposites ............................................. 393
Arun K. Nandi, Rama K. Layek, Sanjoy Samanta, and Dhruba
P. Chatterjee
12 Synthesis and Properties of Graphene-Based
Nanocomposites in a Biodegradable Polymer .................. 423
Gui Lin, Isao Noda, and James E. Mark
13 Effect of Modified Graphene on Properties of
Polypropylene Nanocomposites ............................... 447
Olga Shepelev and Samuel Kenig
14 Diffusion through Polymers Containing Platelike
Nanomaterials .............................................. 467
Matthew S. Thompson, Sushant Agarwal, Prithu Mukhopadhyay,
and Rakesh K. Gupta
15 Using Functionalized Graphene Sheets to Restrain
Chemically Driven Composite Aging .......................... 495
J.S. van der Wal
16 Graphene/Polymer Nanocomposites ............................ 513
Hyunwoo Kim, Ahmed A. Abdala, and Christopher W. Macosko
17 Highly Filled Graphite-Polymer Composites: Synthesis,
Processing, and Characterization ........................... 557
Sadhan C. Jana and Ling Du
Index ......................................................... 591
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