Andreas Schedy
University of Education Freiburg, Germany
Title: Graphene – exciting insights into the synthesis and chemistry of the miracle material of the 21st century and its implementation in chemistry lessons for the first time
Biography
Biography: Andreas Schedy
Abstract
The two-dimensional modification of carbon which is also known as “graphene” is an extremely interesting material due to its physical properties, such as a very high electrical conductivity and an intrinsic mechanical strength that is even better than that of steel. For that reason, it has already been called the “miracle material“ of the 21st century. Up to now, the synthesis of graphene was to dangerous to implement it into the school curricula. The authors present a method of synthesizing graphene which can be put into practice at school without hesitation. In addition, the authors present some experiments with which the varying properties of graphene oxide and graphene during synthesis can be shown. In this way, different structure property relationships, which appear to be one of the most important concepts in chemistry lessons, can be analyzed. The authors also present a field of application for graphene