Industry
Application
Role/benefit
Optical nonlinearity
Protect sensitive instruments from laser-induced damage
Nonlinear optical material/electrical and optical properties can be tuned dynamically
Pulse compression, mode-locking and Q-switching
all-optical switching, signal regeneration and fast optical communications
Graphene
Large-scale production and manipulation of graphene
Raw material
Water purification
Desalination of water
Reverse osmosis material/selectively allows water to pass, but retain some larger ions
Removing radioactive material from water
Absorption material/flakes of graphene oxide absorbs radioactive ions in water
Sand filters coating for removing pollutants
Coating material/increase the saturated time of sand filters
Coating
Containers for corrosive acid and medical packaging
Coating material
Electronics
Flexible rechargeable battery
Anode material/increase the faster charge and discharge times for batteries
Solar cells
Anode material
Biomedical
Biosensors for detecting biologically relevant molecules
Fluorescence quenching material
Targeted delivery of anti-cancer drugs
Drug-carrying materials
Others
Hydrogen storage
Storage material/high specific surface area
Graphene oxide lens
Lens material
Graphene oxide paper
Paper material
