Graphene reduced from magnesiothermic reaction

This is an author's peer-reviewed final manuscript, as accepted by the publisher. The published article is copyrighted by The Royal Society of Chemistry and can be found at: http://pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/journalissues/cc#!recentarticles&all.We, for the first time, employ magnesiothermic reaction to convert microwave-irradiated graphite oxide to pure graphene. The magnesiothermic reaction raises the carbon to oxygen atomic ratio from 22.2 to 165.7 and maintains a high surface area. The new strategy demonstrates an efficient method for obtaining highly pure graphene materials