A communication in Journal of Materials Chemistry was featured in a news story on the BBC website. The article describes the conversion of carbon dioxide to few-layer graphene by burning magnesium metal in dry ice to form nanosheets of graphene. The researchers from Northern Illinois University, USA, and Southern Methodist University, USA, say that the exact mechanism for the formation of graphene is still under investigation but the team thinks that the rapid reaction kinetically favours graphene over graphite.
Read the original article here: Amartya Chakrabarti, Jun Lu, Jennifer C. Skrabutenas, Tao Xu, Zhili Xiao, John A. Maguire and Narayan S. Hosmane, J. Mater. Chem., 2011, 9491-9493
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