%0 Journal Article %T “Eau de graphene” from a KC8 graphite intercalation compound prepared by a simple mixing of graphite and molten potassium %+ Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal (CRPP) %+ Laboratoire Charles Coulomb (L2C) %A Bepete, George %A Hof, Ferdinand %A Huang, Kai %A Kampioti, Katerina %A Anglaret, Eric %A Drummond, Carlos %A Pénicaud, Alain %Z Agence Nationale de la Recherche (GRAAL) and Linde Corp. is acknowledged. This work has been done within the framework of the GDR-I3217 “graphene and nanotubes”. %< avec comité de lecture %Z P 116-12328 %@ 1862-6254 %J physica status solidi (RRL) - Rapid Research Letters %I Wiley-VCH Verlag %V 10 %N 12 %P pp. 895-899 %8 2016-11-14 %D 2016 %R 10.1002/pssr.201600167 %K 2D band %K Raman spectroscopy %K “eau de graphene” %K graphenide %K KC8 %K graphite intercalation compound %Z Physics [physics] %Z Chemical Sciences/Material chemistryJournal articles %X We synthesized KC8 by simply mixing molten potassium and graphite at 180 °C under inert atmosphere. The KC8 showstypical shiny bronze color, Raman characteristics and XRD pattern of an efficiently intercalated stage 1 GIC, and is ofsufficient quality to produce fully exfoliated graphenide solutions in tetrahydrofuran (THF) and subsequently single layer graphene in water as “eau de graphene” (EdG). The evolution of absorption and Raman spectroscopic signatures of the EdGas a function of processing conditions give key indications on the number of layers of the graphene flakes dispersed in EdG. %G English %L hal-01420874 %U https://hal.science/hal-01420874 %~ CNRS %~ L2C %~ INC-CNRS %~ MIPS %~ UNIV-MONTPELLIER %~ UM-2015-2021