A conductive material, and a method for preparing the same are provided. The conductive material has a structure where a plurality of graphene sheets are interconnected, wherein an oxygen content is 1 wt % or higher based on the total weight of the conductive material, and a D/G peak ratio is 2.0 or less when the Raman spectrum is measured.

Disclosed herein are graphene coatings characterized by a porous, three-dimensional, spherical structure having a hollow core, along with methods for forming such graphene coatings on glasses, glass-ceramics, ceramics, and crystalline materials. Such coatings can be further coated with organic or inorganic layers and are useful in chemical and electronic applications.

The invention utilizes swelling and fusion effects of graphene oxide in a solvent to implement cross-linked bonding of a graphene material itself and materials such as polymers, metal, paper, glass, carbon materials, and ceramics. The present invention not only overcomes the shortcoming in traditional adhesives of residual formaldehyde, but also has short drying time, high bonding strength and high corrosion resistance. The present invention is widely applied in the fields of aviation, aerospace, automobiles, machinery, construction, chemical, light industry, electronics, electrical appliances, and daily life, etc.

A technique that enables production of pellicle membranes that are better resistant to breakage when subjected to force exerted thereon in the thickness direction thereof and that have high transmittance to light. A pellicle membrane of the present invention includes a plurality of laminated layers, where at least one of the layers is provided with at least one hole having a width or diameter of 10 nm to 500 nm.

A method for the manufacture of pristine graphite from Kish graphite including three different steps A, B and C; the pristine obtained with among others a high amount of carbon atoms, i.e. a pristine graphene having a high purity; and the use of this pristine graphene.

The present disclosure relates to production of electrodes. The present disclosure particularly relates to production of graphene based transparent conducting electrode (TCE). The disclosure provides a simple and environmental friendly process for producing said graphene based TCE by coating of graphene on a modified or non-modified substrate. Said electrode provides large area metal network with reduced non-uniformity of conducting film, visible transparency and low or reduced sheet resistance. The disclosure further relates to a graphene based transparent conductive electrode (TCE).

This disclosure provides an electrophoretic display system including a first electrode disposed on a substrate and a three-dimensional (3D) carbon-based structure configured to guide a migration of electrically charged electrophoretic ink particles dispersed therein that are configured to be responsive to application of a voltage to the first electrode. The 3D carbon-based structure includes a plurality of 3D aggregates defined by a morphology of graphene nanoplatelets orthogonally fused together and cross-linked by a polymer; and, a plurality of channels interspersed throughout the 3D carbon-based structure defined by the morphology. The plurality of channels includes a plurality of inter-particle pathways and a plurality of intra-particle pathways. Each inter-particle pathway can include a smaller dimension than each inter-particle pathway. A second electrode is disposed on the 3D carbon-based structure. Each 3D aggregate can include any one or more of graphene, carbon nano-onions, carbon nanoplatelets, or carbon nanotubes.

A water-based graphene dispersion is made by shear stabilization. The method of preparing the water-based graphene dispersion using shear stabilization includes adding a composition containing a graphene powder, a super wetter surfactant and a water dispersible rheology agent into water to form an aqueous mixture; and shearing the aqueous mixture under high pressures to break down the thick layers of the graphene powder to thin layers of graphene platelet particles and to form the water-based graphene dispersion with the graphene platelet particles dispersed in the water-based graphene dispersion. The water-based graphene dispersion is stable without visible phase separation after storage at room temperature for at least one year or even more than one year.

The first object of the invention is a method of obtaining a carbide-graphene surface composite with a controlled surface morphology, especially a SiC-graphene composite, characterized in that the SiC substrate, especially with a crystalline or polycrystalline structure, after initial preparation is successively subjected to annealing and then cooling. The second object of the invention is a carbide-graphene composite on a SiC surface, with a crystalline or polycrystalline structure, obtained by the method as defined in the first object of the invention, containing from one to four atomic layers of graphene forming a honeycomb lattice, wherein their diffraction spectrum obtained by the low energy electron diffraction method has a diffraction pattern typical of graphene on the SiC surface, characterized by the fact that it contains a surface covered with terraces or a network of pits, the difference in height of the terraces is from 0.25×10.sup.−9 m to 2.5×10.sup.−9 m or the surface density of pits is at least 5×10.sup.12/m.sup.2.

The present disclosure relates to a graphene composite and a method of manufacturing the same, and a graphene composite according to an exemplary embodiment includes: a substrate; a first thin film positioned on the substrate; and a second thin film positioned on the first thin film, in which the first thin film includes graphene, and the second thin film includes at least any one of VSe.sub.2, VS.sub.2, VTe.sub.2, TaS.sub.2, TaSe.sub.2, NbS.sub.2, NbSe.sub.2, TiS.sub.2, TiSe.sub.2, TiTe.sub.2, ReS.sub.2, and ReSe.sub.2.