Ultra-Fast, Chemical-Free, Mass Production of High Quality Exfoliated Graphene.

As graphene penetrates into industries, it is essential to mass produce high quality graphene sheets. New discoveries face formidable challenges in the marketplace due to the lack of proficient protocols to produce graphene on a commercial scale while maintaining its quality. Here, we present a conspicuous protocol for ultrafast exfoliation of graphite into high quality graphene on the sub-kilogram scale without the use of any intercalants, chemicals, or solvent.

Deposition of Multiscale Thickness Graphene Coating by Harnessing Extreme Heat and Rapid Quenching: Toward Commercialization.

Deposition of graphene as a coating material over large-scale areas is an intense topic of research because of complexities involved in the existing deposition techniques. Higher defects and compromised properties restricted in realizing the full potential of graphene coating. This work aims to deposit graphene coatings by adopting a traditional technique, that is, plasma spraying, which has inherent merits of extremely high cooling rate (∼10 K/s) and low plasma exposure time (∼0.

Instant Tuning of Superhydrophilic to Robust Superhydrophobic and Self-Cleaning Metallic Coating: Simple, Direct, One-Step, and Scalable Technique.

We present a simple, direct, one-step, scalable technique for instant tuning of all the different states of wetting characteristics using atmospheric plasma spray (APS) technique. We observed that, just by changing the process parameters in the APS technique, the wetting characteristics of an intrinsically hydrophilic aluminum metallic surface can be tuned to superhydrophilic (contact angle (CA): 0°), hydrophilic (CA: 19.6°), hydrophobic (CA: 97.