Reduction Kinetics of Thermally Reduced Graphene Oxide Thin Films

Article Preview

Abstract:

We report an experimentalstudy of thermal reduction of graphene oxide (GO) under nitrogen flow.Ultrathin films of GO were prepared on quartz glass substrates by spin-coatingfrom 3 mg/ml aqueous solutions of GO. These films were annealed at 50 °C under vacuum overnight before thermal reduction.The films were exposed to temperatures of 100 °C, 150 °C, 200 °C, 300 °C, 400 °C, 500 °C and 800 °C under nitrogen flowing. We used UV-Vis absorption spectroscopy tomonitor the change of absorption spectra caused by thermal reduction. We observed a significant change ofabsorption spectra due to formation of reduced graphene oxide (RGO). We found that thermal reduction startedalready at 100 °C, but proceeded significantly faster at heating temperatures higherthan 200 °C.

You might also be interested in these eBooks

Info:

Periodical:

Pages:

317-320

Citation:

Online since:

August 2015

Export:

Price:

Permissions CCC:

Permissions PLS:

Сopyright:

© 2015 Trans Tech Publications Ltd. All Rights Reserved

Share:

Citation:

* - Corresponding Author

[1] K. S. Novoselov, A. K. Geim, S. V. Morozov, D. Jiang, Y. Zhang, S. V. Dubonos, I. V. Grigorieva, and A. A. Firsov, Electric field effect in atomically thin carbon films, Science 306 (2004) 666-669.

DOI: 10.1126/science.1102896

Google Scholar

[2] P. W. Sutter, J. I. Flege, and E. A. Sutter, Epitaxial graphene on ruthenium, Nature Materials 7 (2008) 406-411.

DOI: 10.1038/nmat2166

Google Scholar

[3] C. Berger, Z. Song, X. Li, X. Wu, N. Brown, C. Naud, D. Mayou, T. Li, J. Hass, A. N. Marchenkov, E. H. Conrad, P. N. First, and W. A. de Heer, Electronic confinement and coherence in patterned epitaxial graphene, Science 312 (2006) 1191-1196.

DOI: 10.1126/science.1125925

Google Scholar

[4] S. Stankovich, D. A. Dikin, R. D. Piner, K. A. Kohlhaas, A. Kleinhammes, Y. Jia, Y. Wu, S. T. Nguyen, and R. S. Ruoff, Synthesis of graphene-based nanosheets via chemical reduction of exfoliated graphite oxide, Carbon 45 (2007) 1558-1565.

DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2007.02.034

Google Scholar

[5] H. Li, C. Bubeck, Photoreduction processes of graphene oxide and related applications, Macromol. Research 21 (2013) 290-297.

DOI: 10.1007/s13233-013-1139-x

Google Scholar

[6] X. Wang, L. Zhi, K. Muellen, Transparent conductive graphene electrode for dye-sensitized solar cell, Nano Letter 8 (2008) 323-327.

DOI: 10.1021/nl072838r

Google Scholar