Graphene in the Interstellar Medium: An Astrochemical Perspective
Tanya Saini
Department of Chemistry, Institute of Chemical Technology (Mumbai)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36664/bt/2023/v70i1/173201
Keywords: Interstellar Medium (ISM), Graphene, Top-Down, Bottom-Up, Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs)
Abstract
The Interstellar Medium (ISM), owing to its tempestuous conditions, was never envisaged to yield any rich chemistry. In particular, the cold temperature regions erroneously seem rather inactive due to no large-scale, visible chemical activities taking place.
In this paper, we discuss and comment on recent literature as we introduce astrochemistry, talk about its wondrous avenues and delve deeper into these interactions, ones that especially take place at low temperature (Low Temperature Astrochemistry) and culminate by introducing the intriguing role carbon allotropes (like graphene) play in this interstellar matrix.
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