A Facile and Novel Synthesis of Ag-Graphene-Based Nanocomposites

• Published in: Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) Vol. 5; no. 20; pp. 2253 - 2259
• Main Authors: Pasricha, Renu, Gupta, Shweta, Srivastava, Avanish Kumar
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Weinheim WILEY-VCH Verlag 16.10.2009; WILEY‐VCH Verlag
• Subjects: electrical conductivity; graphene nanosheets; Metal Nanoparticles - chemistry; nanocomposites; Nanocomposites - chemistry; Nanotechnology - methods; Silver - chemistry; silver nanoparticles

Nanospacers for graphene: A facile and scalable process for the synthesis of aqueous solutions of isolated silver‐decorated graphene sheets (see image) is presented. The silver–graphene nanocomposite film shows a 109‐fold increase in electrical conductivity as compared to the graphite oxide film....