Graphene oxide nano-domain formation via wet chemical oxidation of graphene

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• 作者：Esra Yazici^a ; Serhat Yanik^a ; ^b ; Mehmet Burak Yilmaz^c ; ^d ; ^{byilmaz@gmail.com" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author}
• 关键词：Graphene ; Graphene oxide ; Wet chemistry ; Impurity doping ; Reactivity
• 刊名：Carbon
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：111
• 期：Complete
• 页码：822-827
• 全文大小：1855 K

文摘

Chemical modification and functionalization of graphene is of great interest to alter its intrinsic properties. Among various methods, wet chemical oxidation is widely used for obtaining large quantities of graphene oxide or reduced graphene oxide. It is also often used as an intermediary step for further functionalization of the graphene. This work presents a microscopic study of the oxidation of single layer graphene on SiO₂/Si substrate via wet chemistry. In addition to a uniform graphene oxide region growing at the edge, nano-sized graphene oxide domains within unoxidized graphene is observed. The graphene oxide nano-domain formation is attributed to the nonuniform impurity doping of the flakes which affect the local electrochemical reactivity of graphene. Graphene oxide nano-domain covered flakes which provide a long interface between the conducting graphene medium and the nano-domains, may be used as a template material for further functionalization to be used in novel electronic devices.