International Interlaboratory Comparison (ILC) of Thermogravimet-ric (TGA) Measurements of Graphene Materials

Published

March 14, 2023

Author(s)

Pei Lay Yap, Farzaneh Farivar, Victoria Coleman, Asa Jamting, Sam Gnaniah, Elisabeth Mansfield, Cheng Pu, Sandra Marcela Landi, Marcus Vinicius David, Emmanuel Flahaut, Paul Finnie, Mary Gallerneault, M. Dominque Locatelli, Sebastien Jacquinot, Carltoa Gray Slough, Jan Hanss, Jorg Menzel, Stefen Schmolzer, Lingling Ren, Andrew Pollard, Dusan Losic

Abstract

Graphene materials are strongly emerging from academic research labs into industrial sectors with many developed products on market. Characterizations and quality control of graphene materials are very critical with an urgent demand for reliable, reproducible, and accurate measurements of graphene's properties. To facilitate industrial growth, several measurement stand-ards are under development within the Nanotechnologies committees of both ISO 229 and IEC 113. Towards this effort, this paper presents the procedure and the results of an international interlaboratory comparison (ILC) study, conducted under Ver-sailles Project on Advanced Materials and Standards (VAMAS) Technical Working Area (TWA) 41 "Graphene and Related 2D Materials" This ILC focusses on the comparability of thermogravimetric (TGA) measurements of graphene materials powders including pristine graphene, graphene oxide (GO) and reduced graphene oxide (rGO) using the same measurement protocol across different institutes and laboratories. The TGA measurements were focused on key parameters including the determina-tion of mass loss steps, thermal stability the temperature of maximum mass loss rate, mass for moisture, oxygen groups, and carbon and residue mass loss. The measurements data and processed results were gathered from 12 participants across aca-demia, industry (including instrument manufacturers), and national metrology institutes and this study presents their compari-son and evaluates the uncertainty contributions from TGA measurements and data analysis procedures.

Citation

Analytical Chemistry

Volume

95

Issue

12

Pub Type

Journals

Download Paper

https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.analchem.2c03575

Local Download

Keywords

graphene, standards, interlaboratory study, thermogravimetric analysis

Citation

Yap, P. , Farivar, F. , Coleman, V. , Jamting, A. , Gnaniah, S. , Mansfield, E. , Pu, C. , Marcela Landi, S. , Vinicius David, M. , FLAHAUT, E. , Finnie, P. , Gallerneault, M. , Locatelli, M. , Jacquinot, S. , Slough, C. , Hanss, J. , Menzel, J. , Schmolzer, S. , Ren, L. , Pollard, A. and Losic, D. (2023), International Interlaboratory Comparison (ILC) of Thermogravimet-ric (TGA) Measurements of Graphene Materials, Analytical Chemistry, [online], https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.analchem.2c03575, https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=934343 (Accessed December 10, 2024)