Pulsed laser assisted reduction of graphene oxide as a flexible transparent conducting material

Two-dimensional graphene nanosheets (GNS) and graphene based materials have received significant attention in recent years due to their unique electronic, mechanical, and thermal properties since their discovery in 2004. At present, GNS have been prepared by a variety of techniques, including micromechanical cleavage, chemical processing, epitaxial growth, and so on. Among these methods, chemical reduction of exfoliated GO is an efficient approach to large-scale production of GNS in low cost. However, nowadays, the frequently used reducing agents, such as hydrazine and dimethylhydrazine, are toxic and the chemical reduction processes are time-consuming and complicated. In this paper, we focused on fabrication of flexible transparent conducting material, which is based on pulsed laser assisted reduction of GO solution. The “pulsed laser reduction system” was mainly consisted with pulsed laser generator, quartz container and magnetic stirrer.