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Abstract
The spatial arrangement of graphene (G) or graphene oxide (GO) nanoplate agglomerations will significantly impact the material properties of graphene-based polymer nanocomposites. Therefore, we investigated the stability of G and GO agglomerates without the presence of a polymer network using molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, which was not considered in our previous work (Reil, 2022) [15]. G and GO nanoplates, often procured in powder forms, display a significant volume difference by visual observation. To this end, MD simulations were performed to model G or GO agglomerations in the powder form, including the effects of varied plate dimensions and localized surface oxidation. G plates on average released 231 kcal/mol upon agglomerating into aligned stacks, closely matching results in the literature. Simulations of GO resulted in agglomerations of clusters of plates rather than aligned stacks, releasing on average 16 % less energy than G. The clustered arrangement of GO plate agglomerates in simulations occupied a volume approximately 7x that of the aligned stack G plates, closely replicating the experimentally determined volume ratio of 10x. This research could yield further insight into the behavior of G and GO when in the presence of various polymer networks, which could be different than in isolation.
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