Guest Editorial: Electrochemistry of Graphene

Abstract

We are excited to present to you a special issue of Electroanalysis on the electrochemistry of graphene and related materials. When carbon nanotubes were introduced (reinvented) in 1991, it took more than one decade before their utility in electroanalytical applications was noticed which resulted in an explosion of publications and explorations into the fundamental electrochemical properties that elucidated their electroactivity. In contrast, since the re-invention of graphene in 2004, only four years passed before graphene-related electrochemical applications were reported. In 2010, when the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to the scientists who characterized graphene only six years before, the electroanalytical utility of graphene was already firmly established. The electrochemical community has been gradually gaining insight into the fundamentals driving the electrochemical properties of graphene materials and preparation techniques including both top-down and bottom-up procedures which produce dramatically different chemical and electrochemical properties. Therefore, we felt that it would be timely to organize a special issue on the electrochemistry of graphene containing high profile papers from leading groups in the field presented in one volume. We hope that this issue gives the readers of Electroanalysis a general perspective and a snapshot of the latest cutting edge research in the field. We are proud to have a collection of very high quality papers from diverse countries which include the use of electrochemistry as a tool to characterize different graphene materials, as well as the sensing, biosensing, and energy-related applications of graphene. We thank the Editor-in-Chief of Electroanalysis, Prof. Joseph Wang (UCSD), for his enthusiasm and continuous support of this endeavor. We hope you will enjoy this special issue! With best wishes to the New Year, Martin Pumera, Ronen Polsky and Alessandra Bonanni, Guest Editors 1 1 1 Martin Pumera Ronen Polsky Alessandra Bonanni Nanyang Technological Sandia National Laboratories Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Albuquerque, NM, USA University, Singapore