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Ingles Científico, Ev 3 Artículo Científico

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Gloria Paola Zúñiga Antonio 2123064
César Antonio Arredondo González 2005271
Pamela Yazmin Escobar Lomelí 2013970
Kevin Noel Anguiano Maya 2010210
Antonio Miguel Ramírez Izquierdo 2032631
Hugo Gabriel Hernández Ortega 2017918
Alfonso Rodríguez Silva 1969783
Review of “Perspectivas y aplicaciones reales del grafeno después de 16
años de su descubrimiento”
Graphene is an amazing material with only 1 atom layer, this material has a great
resistance and has an excellent thermal and electrical conductivity. Graphene has
many aplications in different areas, can be combined with dicholcogenides (are a
class of layered materials of significant interest) [1] to make coats with great
electrical properties, or can be maked plastic to be used in the aerospacial industry
thanks by his low weight and great resistance. [2]

To obtain graphene in an industrial level, industries uses a tecnique called CVD to

make larger graphene sheets compared to other techniques, this technique consist
in the heating of a hot surface made of nickel, palladium or copper, in presence of
hydrogen and methane and the carbon is deposited on the hot surface, later,
varying the temperature and the flow of pressure, this technique has the most
efficient results if the objective is to produce it in large quantities. [3]

Structural properties of graphene

Graphene can have two tipes of edges, zigzag and armchair, zigzag edges are
more reactive compared to armchair edges, this means that the zigzag edges have
metallic behavior and the armchair are more like semiconductors. [3]

Electronic properties of graphene

Considering its electronic structure, one of the most interesting aspects of

graphene is the nature of its charge carriers, which behave as Dirac fermions,
instead of following the Schrödinger equation. The presence of antibonding Π and
Π orbitals is responsible for the bands corresponding to the filled and empty
orbitals progressively reducing to the point where they end up touching, resulting in
a band width of 0 eV. [4]

Optical properties of graphene

Due to the fact that graphene is a layer of a single atom thick, it is a material with a
high optical transparency in the whole range of wavelengths of the visible and
ultraviolet zone. Monolayer graphene transmits about 97.7% in the visible zone
and therefore they are highly transparent. This high transparency, together with its
high electrical conductivity, places graphene and its derivatives as an ideal
candidate for applications as a transparent conductor, such as in touch screens,
photovoltaic cells and organic LEDs. [5]

Graphene in water treatment

Due to the immense surface area of graphene and its ability to absorb multiple
functional groups, graphene and graphene oxide have a very high projection in the
generation of filtration membranes for water treatment. Membranes for water
purification must have high selectivity and excellent permeability of desired
molecules/ions. They must also be highly cost-effective, easy to maneuver, and
must have good chemical and mechanical stability. Within these next generation
filters, the GO is one of the most striking candidates. Majumder et al, developed a
novel filter from a viscous GO that spreads to produce a thin layer, with a
methodology similar to putting butter on square bread, this proposal generates a
uniform layer with quite striking adsorption characteristics. [3]

Energy colectors

One of the most important optoelectronic devices, where graphene has proven to
be an ideal candidate, are photodetectors. In these devices, the absorbed photon
energy is converted into an electrical signal. Photodetectors have been
predominantly developed using semiconducting materials. However, the optical
absorption of semiconductors is limited by their bandgap, so photon energies with
values lower than this bandgap cannot be detected. In contrast, graphene having a
cone-shaped bandgap, it can absorb photons from the ultraviolet to the terahertz
range. Another advantage of this two-dimensional material is the high mobility of
charge carriers, which allows graphene to exhibit very fast photodetection. [3]

Opinion

The carbon has a lot of structures it has many structures, whether natural or man-
made, graphene is one of the structures of carbon and is really impresive by itself
due to its properties and the fact and the fact that it is only one atom thick wich
provides many aplications in our daily life.

Bibliography

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[2] Grafeno: aplicaciones y usos prácticos. (2016, August 31). VIU.

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[3] Urcuyo Solórzano, R., Cordero Solano, K. V., & Gonzalez Flores, D. A. (2021).

Perspectivas y aplicaciones reales del grafeno después de 16 años de su

descubrimiento. Revista Colombiana de Química, 50(1), 51–85.

https://doi.org/10.15446/rev.colomb.quim.v50n1.90134

[4] Propiedades y aplicaciones eléctricas del grafeno - Applynano Solutions. (2018, April

30). Applynano Solutions. https://applynano.com/propiedades-y-aplicaciones-

electricas-del-grafeno/

[5] Propiedades y aplicaciones ópticas y optoelectrónicas del grafeno - Applynano

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y-aplicaciones-opticas-y-optoelectronicas-del-grafeno/