The Functionalization of Graphene

Molecular functionalization of graphene is a key to materials applications. This could be by covalent and non-covalent strategies, the latter more interesting since this causes no damage to the carbon lattice, but also more challenging since this can be more difficult to detect by “standard” graphene methods such as Raman spectroscopy, microscopy (light, AFM, STM and TEM). Pyrene derivatives are established tools for non-covalent fuctionalization of carbon nano-tubes that should interact with Graphene in the same fashion.<p>Poster presented at 216th ECS Meeting, October 4-9, 2009, Vienna, Austria