Fabrication of Holey Graphene: Catalytic Oxidation by Metalloporphyrin-Based Covalent Organic Framework Immobilized
Wanji Seo1, David L White1, Alexander Star1
1Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 15260, USA.
Chemistry (Weinheim an Der Bergstrasse, Germany)
|March 9, 2017
Abstract:
We report a facile chemical method for fabricating holey graphene by catalytic oxidation of highly ordered pyrolytic graphite (HOPG) using an FeIII porphyrin complex-based covalent organic framework (COF) as a bifunctional surface catalyst-template. We demonstrate regular hole formation after oxidation with H2 O2 and NaOCl, COF removal, and HOPG exfoliation.


