Graphene oxide gets green

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Graphene oxide gets green
Rice researchers show environmentally friendly ways to make it in bulk, break it down 

“We can make you and we can break you.” If Rice University scientists wrote country songs, their ode to graphene oxide would start something like that. But this song wouldn’t break anybody’s heart.

A new paper from the lab of Rice chemist James Tour demonstrates an environmentally friendly way to make bulk quantities of graphene oxide (GO), an insulating version of single-atom-thick graphene expected to find use in all kinds of material and electronic applications. 

A second paper from Tour and Andreas L