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m đi từ graphene, nêu sơ ra công dụng các thứ của nó, sau đó kiểu nêu về sự phát triển á.

rồi có thể nói về một số vd về môi trường, phần m thì theo cái giàn bài của bài báo cũng
đc mà đừng có copy paste nhìu quá
1 Introduction
Graphene (G), an allotrope of carbon, has triggered a new “gold rush” since its discovery
by Novoselov and Geim. Since 2004, it is treated as one of the most wonderful
achievements in the field of science and technology. As the first two-dimensional (2D)
atomic crystal available to us, graphene possesses many superior physical and chemical
properties, such as high electronic and thermal conductivity, great mechanical strength,
huge theoretical surface area and ready chemical functionalization, which together justify
its nickname “miracle material” and make it highly attractive for numerous applications.
Recently, the rate at which graphene awareness is rising is highly remarkable and
suggests that it is a good route of the scientists’ search for new materials for advancement
in science, engineering, health, and composite industries. The boom in nanotechnology
and amazing breakthroughs in research on graphene have provided great promise for its
wide application in the fields of electronics, photonics, composite materials, energy
generation and storage, sensors and metrology, bioapplications, and the environment.
Graphene nanomaterials and their derivatives have exhibited excellent performance in
environmental pollutant removal, including that of heavy metals (Pb2+, Hg2+, Cd2+,
Co2+, As (III, V), and Cr (VI)), anionic and cationic dyes, organic pollutants (phenolic
compounds, pesticides, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs)), inorganic anionic
pollutants, and gas pollutants. The broad applicability of graphene and its high efficiency
in the control of various contaminants are mainly due to its large surface area, abundance
of surface functional groups and fast electron transfer, which make graphene a wonderful
adsorbent and catalytic medium. Due to rapid increases in production and applications,
the release of graphene into the environment poses a potential health risk.
Graphene is the only allotrope of carbon in which every carbon atom is tightly bonded to
its neighbours by a unique electronic cloud that raises several exceptional questions to
quantum physics. Along with the unique quantum hall phenomenon, graphene itself
exists in several forms like graphene nanoribbons, nanosheets, nanoplates and 3D
graphene. Each of them displays amazing applications. Each carbon atom in graphene is
sp2 hybridised, having three bonds, related to different neighbour carbon atoms (Fig.2).
The sp2 hybridisation is a combination of s, px, and py orbitals. In the hexagonal phase,
three distinct carbon atoms fortify covalently to each carbon atom and all of them are
essentially sp2 hybridised, resulting for each carbon atom in one free electron. The
pz orbital holds this free electron and this p-orbital lies above the plane and forms the pi
bond. Interestingly, the pz orbital of graphene plays a vital role in the chemical and
physical behaviour of this miraculous material. The presence of a zero bandgap is a
drawback and unique feature of graphene, which opens several new opportunities to
develop artificial humanmade materials with tunable bandgaps that can be of use for the
next-generation of computing. The two pi-electrons that are present in every hexagon of
the graphene sheets are responsible for the exceptional conductivity of graphene. Due to
the tight packing of atoms in the crystal lattice of graphene, it is highly stable, but only in
case its size is less than 20 nm, otherwise it is quite unstable thermodynamically except
for some specific conditions.
Furthermore, this review aims to offer a basic background of graphene, discuss some
existing research regarding graphene and insight into the tough questions asked in this
opening gambit. One hopes that the intense research ploughed into graphene will return
more real-world applications than its sister material carbon nanotubes, for instance,
which since their discovery (the discovery date and discoverer remains contentious) have
been utilized very little in real-world applications (however, a recent report has detailed
the fabrication of a carbon nanotube-based computer chip) despite the promising
properties of a remarkably high tensile strength and conductivity. However, as excitable
as the graphene revolution has been for scientists, it remains to be seen whether this
‘wonder material’ will go on to reach the vast potential expected from it.

Fig. 1. (a–c) Fundamental aspect of graphene bonding properties and (d) SEM image of
single-layer graphene.
Fig. 2. Schematic depictions about the Origin (presenting the transformation) of graphene
from graphite and peculiar structure of graphite and graphene.
2. Structure and properties of graphene
The electronic structure of graphene's basic unit is presented below (Fig.1) for a better
understanding of the electronic properties of graphene and their derivatives.
It is interesting to note that structural holes permit the phonons to go unobstructed, which
leads to a significant thermal conductivity in graphene. However, this property has not
been observed in graphene oxide and other derivatives of graphene owing to the altered
band structure. The classification of graphene as metal, non-metal or semimetal is still a
matter of debate and requires further research. But, due to the presence of metallic layers
with very low bandgaps, it can be treated as a semimetal with an exceptional theoretical
background. As a whole, it has numerous remarkable characteristics that are not observed
for other non-metallic materials as well as for the exiting ideal semimetals. The properties
of graphene solely depend on the number of layers and the defects present in the
graphene layers. For example, the theoretical surface area of pristine graphene is
~2630 m2/g which is much higher than the surface area of carbon black (850–900 m2/g),
carbon nanotubes (100–1000 m2/g), and many other analogues. On the otherhand, the
surface area of a few layers graphene, graphene oxide, and many other derivatives are
much less in comparison to single-layer graphene. Due to these exceptional properties,
graphene acts as a perfect material for many modern technologies including electronic
applications along with many other materials as substrate or template.
One of the significant properties of graphene is its unparalleled electrical conductivity,
which is highly essential for next-generation technologies. As mentioned above, the zero
band gap of graphene and its engineered analogue with little overlap between valence and
conduction band opened huge possibilities for the applied and fundamental researc. It is
mainly due to electrons, which behave as massless relativistic particles. In recent times,
many scientists around the globe are working in the same area for the development of
next-generation 2D materials. Many researchers reported that graphene could show
several charge transporters and carriers up to 1013 cm−2 with a mobility of
1 × 104 cm2 V−1 s−1 at room temperature and it could be tuned according to real-time
applications. It has also been explored that this mobility can increase up to
2 × 105 cm2 V−1 s−1 at low temperature under certain boundary conditions. Since the
charge carriers in graphene behave as in semi-metals, commonly called massless Dirac
Fermions, graphene shows a half-integer Quantum Hall Effect (QHE). In this way, the
Quantum Hall Effect in graphene is unique and shows an exceptional relation between
charge, thickness, and speed of the charge carriers. Owing to these properties of
graphene, it has been found that the electrical resistance of a graphene sheet is much less
than that of silver, which is highly favourable for electronic applications. Such prototype
devices and electronic gadgets are in the development process and are expected to be
available in the market within the next 5 years. It has also been investigated that when the
magnetic field acts perpendicular to the conducting materials, especially to the 2D
system's plane and along the axis, then the QHE takes place which strongly supports the
exceptional Hall Effect in the case of graphene. The electron repression produces discrete
band levels due to the two-dimensional nature of graphene; Hence, these levels are called
Landau levels (the charge carriers occupy these levels). However, it remains a matter of
in-depth research for graphene and their analogous materials.
Further, graphene has excellent optical, thermal, and mechanical characteristics. It has
been found that up to 2.3% of white light is absorbed by each layer of graphene with a
reflectance of less than 0.1%. Thus, the pure single graphene layer is highly transparent
along with a high degree of flexibility. There is a linear relationship between the
absorbance and the number of layers of graphene; consequently, as the number of layers
increases in graphene, the absorbance increases rapidly. Theoretically, at room
temperature, single-layer graphene can show a thermal conductivity of 3000–5000
Wm−1K−1. Scientists are still searching for the origin of such an exceptional property in
graphene. Herein, it can be mentioned that depending on the nature of the substrate, this
thermal conductivity can be reduced to 600 Wm−1K−1 even for single-layer graphene. It
has also been demonstrated that the mixture of 12C and 13C has a remarkable value of
thermal conductivity of graphene. Such a kind of dissimilar variation of thermal
conductivity is due to the dissemination of phonons at the interface of the graphene
gallery which blocks their movement. In single layer graphene the pathway of phonons is
different. Indeed, even at this lower conductivity, graphene performs much better as
compared to copper (Cu). Thus, graphene is the strongest and best conductive material. In
particular, a single layer of graphene can withstand up to 42 N m−1 of stresses, with
Young's modulus of 1.0 TPa.

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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1369702114002144
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S246821792030006X

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