Graphene nanomesh and polymeric material at cutting edge

ABSTRACT

Graphene nanomesh (GNM) is a nanostructure of graphene having periodic nanoscale holes. GNM has attracted extensive interest owing to promising chemical, thermal, electronic, photonic, and other vital characteristics. This review merely covers significant facts regarding structure, properties, and graphene patterning techniques to form nanomesh. Polymeric scaffolding has been used as one of fabrication techniques. Among few polymers used in polymer/GNM nanomaterial comprise polyaniline, poly(methyl methacrylate), poly(vinylidene fluoride), polystyrene, and polyethylene, as deliberated in this article. Recently, extensive investigations have been carried out on potential relevance of polymer/GNM nanomaterial in supercapacitor, sensor, Li–ion batteries, organic photovoltaic, and electronic nose.

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KEYWORDS:

• Graphene nanomesh
• polymer
• nanomaterial
• photovoltaic
• electronic nose

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Ayesha Kausar

Ayesha Kausar work at National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan. She has previously worked for National Centre for Physics and Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan. She obtained her PhD from Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad/KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology), Graduate School of EEWS, Daejeon, Republic of Korea. Her research interests include: synthesis, characterization and structure-property relationships of new polymeric materials; synthesis of nanomaterials including organic–inorganic nanocomposites/hybrid materials; polymeric blends via incorporating nanoparticles into thin polymer films; exploring practical and potential prospects of the novel synthesized materials (new polymers and nanomaterials) counting morphological, mechanical, thermal, electrical, conducting, etc.; flame retardant materials; proton conducting fuel cell membranes; nanocomposites for polymer Li-ion battery electrodes; composites based on electrospun nanofibers; production of various polymeric nanoparticles and their composites for solar cells; polymer/carbon nanotube/nanoparticle composites for water treatment; potential of polymer/graphite nanocomposites; polymer/graphene hybrids; polymer/fullerene nanomaterials; fabrication of epoxy-based nanocomposite for various applications; radar absorbing materials; aerospace relevance, and other technical relevances.