Graphene-based inorganic-organic hybrid materials and separation of racemic mixtures
AssigneeUNM Rainforest Innovations
InventorsAlexey Serov, Plamen B Atanassov, Nikolai Kalugin, Liliya V Frolova
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Abstract
A variety of inorganic-organic hybrid materials and various methods for preparing and using the same are described. The hybrid materials are graphene or graphitic materials populated with organic molecules and may have a variety of surface defects, pits or three-dimensional architecture, thereby increasing the surface area of the material. The hybrid materials may take the form of three dimensional graphene nanosheets (3D GNS). If the organic molecules are enantiospecific molecules, the hybrid materials can be used for chiral separation of racemic mixtures.
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An inorganic-organic hybrid material comprising a non-contiguous, three-dimensional graphene material comprising at least two layers of carbon atoms and comprising a plurality of voids wherein the graphene material is populated with organic molecules.
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