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Accessing effects of aliphatic dicarboxylic acid towards the physical and chemical changes in low temperature hydrothermally reduced graphene hydrogel

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To date, studies pertaining the usage of aliphatic dicarboxylic acids (DCAs) in the preparation of graphene-based hydrogels are limited and mainly has been applied either as a reducing agent or cross-linkers. The modification of the hydrogels' properties can be achieved via the introduction of small amount of additive into the starting material, graphene oxide (GO). The facile synthetic protocol enables the impartation of desired properties to the graphene-based hydrogel as intended for their specific applications. In this study, the in-situ preparation of reduced graphene hydrogel (rGH) was carried out in the presence of a series of aliphatic DCAs namely oxalic acid (OA), malonic acid (MA), succinic acid (SA), glutaric acid (GA) and adipic acid (AA) in the GO reaction mixture via green hydrothermal method and freeze-drying. The as-prepared hydrogels were systematically characterized to probe the changes in their chemical and physical changes. Higher specific surface (SSA) of the hydrogel is obtained for shorter chain length DCAs. The FTIR and XPS results also indicated that shorter chain DCAs exhibited better reducing capability in the removal of oxygen functional groups. The C/O ratio obtained showed decrement with the increase in the chain length of the DCA. On the other hand, good dispersity was found for longer chain DCAs in polar solvent. Overall, this study should provide a comprehensive understanding on hydrothermally reduced graphene hydrogels prepared in the presence of dicarboxylic acids.

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Acknowledgments

A.L.T.Z would like to acknowledge the Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) for the scholarship awarded for his PhD studies. The authors are grateful to Ms. Yoko Fujiwara for the administration of the chemicals and apparatus in the laboratory.

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  1. Graduate School of Life Science and Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Fukuoka, 808-0196, Japan

    Alvin Lim Teik Zheng & Yoshito Andou

  2. Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Technology, Thammasat University, Pathumthani, 12120, Thailand

    Supakorn Boonyuen

  3. Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Fukuoka, 804-8550, Japan

    Teruhisa Ohno

  4. Collaborative Research Centre for Green Materials On Environmental Technology, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Fukuoka, 808-0196, Japan

    Yoshito Andou

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ALT Zheng: Conceptualization, Methodology, Investigation, Writing-Original draft preparation, Visualization; S Boonyuen: Supervision, Data curation, Resource; T Ohno: Supervision, Resource; Y Andou: Supervision, Writing-Reviewing and Editing, Resource.

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Zheng, A.L.T., Boonyuen, S., Ohno, T. et al. Accessing effects of aliphatic dicarboxylic acid towards the physical and chemical changes in low temperature hydrothermally reduced graphene hydrogel. J Porous Mater 28, 1291–1300 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10934-021-01072-6

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