Fabrication and biocompatibility of reduced graphene oxide/poly(vinylidene fluoride) composite membranes

RSC Advances ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (121) ◽  
pp. 99841-99847 ◽  
Author(s):  
Supeng Pei ◽  
Fei Ai ◽  
Song Qu
Keyword(s):  
Graphene Oxide ◽  
Reduced Graphene Oxide ◽  
Reduction Method ◽  
Vinylidene Fluoride ◽  
Composite Membranes ◽  
Thermal Reduction ◽  
Reduced Graphene ◽  
Poly Vinylidene Fluoride ◽  
Good Biocompatibility

RGO/PVDF composite membranes with different RGO loadings were prepared by a convenient in situ thermal reduction method and the structural study reveals the good dispersion of RGO in the PVDF, moreover, RGO/PVDF membranes show good biocompatibility.

Reduced Graphene Oxide Paper: Fabrication by a Green Thermal Reduction Method and Preliminary Study of its In Vitro Cytotoxicity

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
pp. 199-207 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xin Wang ◽  
Peng Li ◽  
Claudia Luedecke ◽  
Qiang Zhang ◽  
Zan Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tissue Engineering ◽  
Graphene Oxide ◽  
Reduced Graphene Oxide ◽  
Mammalian Cells ◽  
Reduction Method ◽  
Heating Temperature ◽  
Synthesis Method ◽  
Thermal Reduction ◽  
Graphene Films ◽  
Reduced Graphene

Graphene films have been intensively explored because of their unique mechanical and physicochemical properties for potential applications in field of tissue engineering and implants. However, for biomedical applications, it is necessary to fully understand the toxicity and biocompatibility of the prepared graphene films since different synthesis method might lead to different biological properties. Here we report a step-by-step thermal reduction method of preparing reduced graphene oxide (rGO) film directly on various substrates at low heating temperature (below about 200 °C) without requiring any chemical reduction agent like hydrazine or other reductants (therefore we call it green method). Slowly heating GO hydrosol that was coated on the surface of a glass cell-culture dish or inside of a polypropylene tube from room temperature to 60, 100, and 160 °C for 12 h, respectively, a shiny and flat surface without crumpled structure or tiny pores was formed. We peeled it off from the substrate to explore its cytotoxicity. The results exhibited that the rGO film was biocompatible with Cal-72 cell but against Escherichia coli bacteria. Our work confirmed that rGO film produced by the green reduction method is cytocompatible with mammalian cells, which makes this rGO film a promising material for tissue engineering scaffold or as a surface-modification coating of an implant.

Facile synthesis of thermally reduced graphene oxide-sepiolite nanohybrid via intercalation and thermal reduction method

2017 ◽  
Vol 135 ◽  
pp. 510-515 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.R. Vengatesan ◽  
S. Singh ◽  
S. Stephen ◽  
K. Prasanna ◽  
C.W. Lee ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Graphene Oxide ◽  
Reduced Graphene Oxide ◽  
Reduction Method ◽  
Thermal Reduction ◽  
Facile Synthesis ◽  
Reduced Graphene
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