Researchers develop new scalable and sustainable way to produce synthetic GO

Researchers from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, University of New South Wales and University of Milan have a reported a reproducible and scalable method for producing graphene oxide (GO) nanosheets from commercial carbon fibers. The process involves exfoliating carbon fibers with nitric acid, which reportedly provides high yields of one-atom-thick sheets of graphene oxide with characteristics comparable to commercial GO sourced from mined graphite.