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Crumpled Graphene oxide nanoparticles
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The flexibility of graphene oxide (GO) nanosheets and their unique properties enable them to be excellent two-dimensional (2D) building blocks for designing functional materials. Graphene oxide could be utilized to develop as platform for cancer therapies.
One issue for large-scale applications of graphene, such as for drug delivery, is restacking. Aerosol routes are proved to be a rational approach to fold the 2D flat GO nanosheets into 3D crumpled spheres to mitigate the restacking issue.
In this project, crumpled Graphene oxide (GO) nanoparticles are synthesized furnace aerosol reactor (FuAR) method. The precursor solution, GO in water as solvent, passes through a nebulizer, and then the generated aerosol droplets undergo evaporation-driven crumpling to produce crumpled GO nanoparticles.
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