Hi Giselle:
Great title…it sucked me in. Once sucked in, I saw it was an electrochemical intercalation and Raman Spectroscopy poster. You cite Ca(II) intercalated graphite as the superconductor, but it looks like the initial work is using Li(I). Have other folks demonstrated reversible electrochemical calcium intercalation/deintercalation for these materials from these electroplytes? I don’t know this specific literature, but sometimes the bare ion or solvated ion size excludes intercalation in other systems. Thanks, I liked the poster.
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Hi,
Thanks for the comments. There is definitely precedent for intercalating Ca(II) and K(I) both in bulk graphite as well as graphene. To my knowledge though, no one has attempted yet to intercalate either one in graphene using electrochemistry specifically. We began with Li(I) because there was much precedent in the literature, (mostly aimed towards Li-ion batteries,) to use electrochemistry and there are some theoretical predictions which support the fact that while the bulk graphite system is not superconductive, the graphene system will be. We have however recently begun working with potassium as well in a nearly identical system, electrolyte and all, and the signs for intercalation seem promising. Since another group has recently been able to detect superconductivity in K(I)-multilayer graphene samples, we are hopeful to be able to really study these systems with more control and in finer detail.
Best regards,
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un believable job
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