scholarly journals Band gap of reduced graphene oxide tuned by controlling functional groups

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (14) ◽  
pp. 4885-4894 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yiqian Jin ◽  
Yiteng Zheng ◽  
Simon G. Podkolzin ◽  
Woo Lee

Functionalization of reduced graphene oxide with epoxide groups allows tuning its band gap energy.

Nanomaterials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 623
Author(s):  
Monika Gupta ◽  
Huzein Fahmi Hawari ◽  
Pradeep Kumar ◽  
Zainal Arif Burhanudin ◽  
Nelson Tansu

The demand for carbon dioxide (CO2) gas detection is increasing nowadays. However, its fast detection at room temperature (RT) is a major challenge. Graphene is found to be the most promising sensing material for RT detection, owing to its high surface area and electrical conductivity. In this work, we report a highly edge functionalized chemically synthesized reduced graphene oxide (rGO) thin films to achieve fast sensing response for CO2 gas at room temperature. The high amount of edge functional groups is prominent for the sorption of CO2 molecules. Initially, rGO is synthesized by reduction of GO using ascorbic acid (AA) as a reducing agent. Three different concentrations of rGO are prepared using three AA concentrations (25, 50, and 100 mg) to optimize the material properties such as functional groups and conductivity. Thin films of three different AA reduced rGO suspensions (AArGO25, AArGO50, AArGO100) are developed and later analyzed using standard FTIR, XRD, Raman, XPS, TEM, SEM, and four-point probe measurement techniques. We find that the highest edge functionality is achieved by the AArGO25 sample with a conductivity of ~1389 S/cm. The functionalized AArGO25 gas sensor shows recordable high sensing properties (response and recovery time) with good repeatability for CO2 at room temperature at 500 ppm and 50 ppm. Short response and recovery time of ~26 s and ~10 s, respectively, are achieved for 500 ppm CO2 gas with the sensitivity of ~50 Hz/µg. We believe that a highly functionalized AArGO CO2 gas sensor could be applicable for enhanced oil recovery, industrial and domestic safety applications.


2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (44) ◽  
pp. 19022-19027
Author(s):  
Zegao Wang ◽  
Yuqing Wang ◽  
Xin Hao ◽  
Jingbo Liu ◽  
Yuanfu Chen ◽  
...  

Through tuning the oxygen function groups, it was demonstrated that the specific capacitance of reduced graphene oxide can increase from 136 F g−1 to 182 F g−1.


2019 ◽  
Vol 948 ◽  
pp. 267-273 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fiqhri Heda Murdaka ◽  
Ahmad Kusumaatmaja ◽  
Isnaeni ◽  
Iman Santoso

We report the synthesize of Graphene Quantum Dots (GQDs) using ablation method with reduced Graphene Oxide (rGO) solution as a starting material. We have varied the concentration of rGO as following: 0.5, 2, 5 mg/ml and then have ablated them using 800 nm Ti-Sapphire femtosecond laser to obtain GQDs. From the UV-Vis data, we observed that the more concentration of rGO is being ablated, the more secondary absorption peak at 255.1 nm appeared. This secondary absorption peak is a characteristic of n-π* bonding due to the presence of oxygen defect which occurs as a result of the interaction between the laser and the water in rGO solution. We conclude that the population of oxigen defect in GQDs is increasing, following the increase of rGO concentration and could alter the optical properties of GQD. On the other hand, using Tauc’s plot, we confirm that the increase of rGO concentration as the ablated material does not alter GQDs optical band gap. However, it will slightly reduce both, direct and indirect Oxygen defect related optical band gap.


RSC Advances ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (57) ◽  
pp. 52339-52346 ◽  
Author(s):  
X. Wang ◽  
X. Li ◽  
Y. Zhao ◽  
Y. Chen ◽  
J. Yu ◽  
...  

Three methods were used to prepare reduced graphene oxide (rGO) with various ratios of oxygen functional groups, such as –OOH, –OH and CO, to study their effects on the NO2 sensing properties at room temperature.


2016 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 481-486 ◽  
Author(s):  
Łukasz Majchrzycki ◽  
Mariusz Walkowiak ◽  
Agnieszka Martyła ◽  
Mikhail Y. Yablokov ◽  
Marek Nowicki ◽  
...  

AbstractNowadays reduced graphene oxide (rGO) is regarded as a highly interesting material which is appropriate for possible applications in electrochemistry, especially in lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). Several methods were proposed for the preparation of rGO-based electrodes, resulting in high-capacity LIBs anodes. However, the mechanism of lithium storage in rGO and related materials is still not well understood. In this work we focused on the proposed mechanism of favorable bonding sites induced by additional functionalities attached to the graphene planes. This mechanism might increase the capacity of electrodes. In order to verify this hypothesis the composite of non-reduced graphene oxide (GO) with multiwalled carbon nanotubes electrodes was fabricated. Electrochemical properties of GO composite anodes were studied in comparison with similarly prepared electrodes based on rGO. This allowed us to estimate the impact of functional groups on the reversible capacity changes. As a result, it was shown that oxygen containing functional groups of GO do not create, in noticeable way, additional active sites for the electrochemical reactions of lithium storage, contrary to what has been postulated previously.


2014 ◽  
Vol 86 (15) ◽  
pp. 7516-7522 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shumao Cui ◽  
Haihui Pu ◽  
Eric C. Mattson ◽  
Zhenhai Wen ◽  
Jingbo Chang ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (05) ◽  
pp. 2051024
Author(s):  
Yangyang Lin ◽  
Genliang Hou ◽  
Song Bi ◽  
Xunjia Su ◽  
Hao Li

A multi-step reduction process was developed to produce reduced graphene oxide (rGO) paper for electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding. First step reduction was achieved by hydroiodic acid to remove most of the oxygen-containing functional groups, and sodium borohydride was used in the second step reduction to reduce carbonyl group which is the most difficult functional group to remove. In the last step reduction, hydroiodic acid was used as reducing agent again to remove the remaining oxygen-containing functional groups. The results show that this method can greatly improve the conductivity and EMI shielding performance of rGO paper. The resulting rGO paper with a C/O ratio of 19.38 and a thickness of 9.1[Formula: see text][Formula: see text]m exhibited high conductivity of 1084[Formula: see text]S/cm and excellent average EMI shielding efficiency of 45.84[Formula: see text]dB in the X-band, better than that reduction by other chemical methods.


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