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Preparation and Characterization of C60/Graphene Hybrid Nanostructures
Published on: May 15, 2018
Preparation of a responsive carbohydrate-coated biointerface based on graphene/azido-terminated tetrathiafulvalene
Izabela Kaminska1, Alexandre Barras, Yannick Coffinier
1Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire (IRI), CNRS USR 3078, Université Lille 1, Parc de la Haute Borne, 50 avenue de Halley, BP 70478, 59658 Villeneuve d'Ascq, France.
Abstract:
A one-step method for the reduction of graphene oxide (GO) to reduced graphene oxide (rGO) is reported taking advantage of the electron-donor properties of an azido-terminated tetrathiafulvalene (TTF-N(3)). The resulting graphene/TTF-N(3) nanohybrid material is characterized by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) spectroscopy, and by electrical and electrochemical means. The accessibility of the azide function to chemoselective modification by any alkyne-terminated partner molecule via Cu(I)-catalyzed "click" chemistry is demonstrated. In a proof of principle and motivated by the importance of glycan-modified materials, many alkynyl-terminated mannose units were grated onto graphene/TTF-N(3). The TTF-mannose units could be released efficiently from the graphene matrix by chemical oxidation of TTF-mannose surface units to TTF(2+)-mannose, using Fe(ClO(4))(3) or the electron-deficient tetracationic cyclophane cyclobis(paraquat-p-phenylene) (CBPQT(4+)).
