Room-temperature metastability of multilayer graphene oxide films
- Authors
- Kim, Suenne; Zhou, Si; Hu, Yike; Acik, Muge; Chabal, Yves J.; Berger, Claire; de Heer, Walt; Bongiorno, Angelo; Riedo, Elisa
- Issue Date
- Jun-2012
- Publisher
- NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
- Keywords
- Epitaxial graphene; Multilayer graphene; Multilayer films; Characteristic relaxation time; Molecules; Multilayers; Density functional theory studies; Multiple applications; Graphene; Oxide films; Density functional theory; Future applications; Metastable
- Citation
- NATURE MATERIALS, v.11, no.6, pp 544 - 549
- Pages
- 6
- Indexed
- SCI
SCIE
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- NATURE MATERIALS
- Volume
- 11
- Number
- 6
- Start Page
- 544
- End Page
- 549
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/erica/handle/2021.sw.erica/32660
- DOI
- 10.1038/NMAT3316
- ISSN
- 1476-1122
1476-4660
- Abstract
- Graphene oxide potentially has multiple applications. The chemistry of graphene oxide and its response to external stimuli such as temperature and light are not well understood and only approximately controlled. This understanding is crucial to enable future applications of this material. Here, a combined experimental and density functional theory study shows that multilayer graphene oxide produced by oxidizing epitaxial graphene through the Hummers method is a metastable material whose structure and chemistry evolve at room temperature with a characteristic relaxation time of about one month. At the quasi-equilibrium, graphene oxide reaches a nearly stable reduced O/C ratio, and exhibits a structure deprived of epoxide groups and enriched in hydroxyl groups. Our calculations show that the structural and chemical changes are driven by the availability of hydrogen in the oxidized graphitic sheets, which favours the reduction of epoxide groups and the formation of water molecules.
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