1. Reduction Kinetics of Graphene Oxide Determined by Electrical Transport Measurements and Temperature Programmed Desorption
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Richard D. Piner, Dongxing Yang, Dmitriy A. Dikin, Inhwa Jung, Heike Geisler, Rodney S. Ruoff, Carl A. Ventrice, Nick Clark, Sasha Stankovich, Yanwu Zhu, and Daniel Field
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Materials science ,Thermal desorption spectroscopy ,Graphene ,Ultra-high vacuum ,Analytical chemistry ,Oxide ,Graphite oxide ,Activation energy ,Surfaces, Coatings and Films ,Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials ,law.invention ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,General Energy ,chemistry ,Electrical resistivity and conductivity ,law ,Desorption ,Physical and Theoretical Chemistry - Abstract
The thermal stability and reduction kinetics of graphene oxide were studied by measuring the electrical resistivity of single-layer graphene films at various stages of reduction in high vacuum and by performing temperature programmed desorption (TPD) measurements of multilayer films in ultrahigh vacuum. The graphene oxide was exfoliated from the graphite oxide source material by slow-stirring in aqueous solution, which produces single-layer platelets with an average lateral size of ∼10 μm. From the TPD measurements, it was determined that the primary desorption products of the graphene oxide films for temperatures up to 300 °C are H2O, CO2, and CO, with only trace amounts of O2 being detected. Resistivity measurements on individual single-layer graphene oxide platelets resulted in an activation energy of 37 ± 1 kcal/mol. The TPD measurements of multilayer films of graphene oxide platelets give an activation energy of 32 ± 4 kcal/mol.
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- 2009
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