Aerosol synthesis of cargo-filled graphene nanosacks

Yantao Chen; Fei Guo; Ashish Jachak; Sang Pil Kim; Dibakar Datta; Jingyu Liu; Indrek Kulaots; Charles Vaslet; Hee Dong Jang; Jiaxing Huang; Agnes Kane; Vivek B. Shenoy; Robert H. Hurt

doi:10.1021/nl2045952

Aerosol synthesis of cargo-filled graphene nanosacks

Yantao Chen, Fei Guo, Ashish Jachak, Sang Pil Kim, Dibakar Datta, Jingyu Liu, Indrek Kulaots, Charles Vaslet, Hee Dong Jang, Jiaxing Huang, Agnes Kane, Vivek B. Shenoy, Robert H. Hurt

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Water microdroplets containing graphene oxide and a second solute are shown to spontaneously segregate into sack-cargo nanostructures upon drying. Analytical modeling and molecular dynamics suggest the sacks form when slow-diffusing graphene oxide preferentially accumulates and adsorbs at the receding air-water interface, followed by capillary collapse. Cargo-filled graphene nanosacks can be nanomanufactured by a simple, continuous, scalable process and are promising for many applications where nanoscale materials should be isolated from the environment or biological tissue.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1996-2002
Number of pages	7
Journal	Nano Letters
Volume	12
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/nl2045952
State	Published - Apr 11 2012
Externally published	Yes

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

Bioengineering
General Chemistry
General Materials Science
Condensed Matter Physics
Mechanical Engineering

Keywords

Graphene
biocompatibility
core-shell structures
encapsulation
folding
graphene oxide

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