Two Dimensional Polymerization of Graphene Oxide: Bottom-up Approach

TL;DR

This paper presents a novel bottom-up method for synthesizing graphene oxide-like structures through two-dimensional polymerization, providing experimental evidence and a theoretical framework for this process.

Contribution

It introduces a new two-dimensional polymerization technique for graphene oxide synthesis, based on aldol condensation of specific molecular centers.

Findings

Successful synthesis of graphene oxide-like structures

Proposed general framework for 2D polymerization

Derived morphologies and lattice structures

Abstract

We demonstrate a bottom-up synthesis of structures similar to graphene oxide via a two dimensional polymerization. Experimental evidence and discussion are conveyed as well as a general framework for this two dimensional polymerization. The proposed morphologies and lattice structures of these graphene oxides are derived from aldol condensation of alternating three nucleophilic and three electrophilic centers of benzenetriol.