Title:Synthetic possibility of polystyrene functionalization based on hydroxyl groups of graphene oxide as nucleophile

Authors: Rongbing Yu,a Shupeng Zhang,a,* Yuting Luo, a Ruofei Bai,b Jiangfang Zhoua and Haiou Songc,*

a. School of Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210094, China. E-mail: shupeng_2006@126.com

b. College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Luoyang Normal University, Luoyang 471022, PR China

c. State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, School of the Environment, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210023, China , E-mail: songhaiou2011@126.com 

Abstract:

Rationally designed polystyrene surface-functionalized graphene oxide nanohybrids were synthesized for the first time utiliziing hydroxyl groups of graphene oxide (GO) as nucleophile. The successful wet chemical functionalization of GO with polystyrene containing phenyl groups convinced the possibility of nucleophilic substitution for heterogeneous phase reactions owing to rigid structure of graphene.