BIOVIA’s Riichi Kuwahara, as part of a large group of scientists from various universities in Japan, has recently published a paper in the Nanoscale Advances journal, “Mass production of low-boiling point solvent- and water-soluble graphene by simple salt-assisted ball milling.”

Molecular simulation using BIOVIA Materials Studio was essential to explain how weak acid salts make it easy to exfoliate graphite layers in low boiling point solvents.

Riichi and colleagues used highly efficient density functional code DMol3 and the state-of-the-art exchange-correlation meta-GGA functional, SCAN, to explain the mechanism behind this new, highly efficient technology.

You can read the full post and access the scientific article at https://blogs.3ds.com/biovia/graphene-production/