Graphene Technologies and Carbon Nanotubes

Emerging Trends in graphene research

The present generation with faster and smaller electronics is the result of advancements in the research. Nowadays research on graphene is a hot topic owing to its unique and excellent properties. Graphene can be produced from mechanical exfoliation, chemical vapor deposition, plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition, electrochemical synthesis and molecular beam epitaxy so on methods. Electrolysis of graphene is generally carried out to get graphene with high purity. In electronics, graphene is used to make electrodes for touch screens, transparent memory chips, integrated circuits with graphene transistors. The main energy-related areas which depend on graphene are solar cells, supercapacitors, lithium-ion batteries, and catalysis for fuel cells.