Materials Science Program Seminar by Prof. Jiaxing Huang, MS&E, Northwestern

In this talk, I will share some curiosity driven discoveries such as the use of GO as surfactant, which has led to all-carbon composites for solar cells. GO sheets can also re-stack to construct nanofluidic ion channels. Next, I will highlight a few problems associated with the manufacturing and processing of GO and its graphene product, including the potential fire risk of GO, the difficulties of imaging these single atomic layers and their ease of aggregation during processing.