Graphene oxide is more hydrophilic and usually used in research work but amine-functionalized graphene is more advance would like to investigate either it can be mixed with TEOS + alkylsilane that is firstly prepared by sol gel method.
Dear Mohd Hamza, You can incorporate the amine-functionalized graphene into the hydrolyzed TEOS sol during the sol gel process in a one step hydrolysis. Crosslinking of your amine-functionalized graphene would be achieved during gelation.
Thanks for the answer. The modified graphene with dodeclylamine and octadecylamine are hydrophobic. Thus this is why I was asking since the TEOS sol gel system contains many OH group contributed by ethanol and water.