The Effect of Thermal Reduction on the Photoluminescence and Electronic Structures of Graphene Oxides

Chuang, C. -H.; Wang, Y. -F.; Shao, Y. -C.; Yeh, Y. -C.; Wang, D. -Y.; Chen, C. -W.; Chiou, J. W.; Ray, Sekhar C.; Pong, W. F.; Zhang, L.; Zhu, J. F.; Guo, J. H.

doi:10.1038/srep04525

The Effect of Thermal Reduction on the Photoluminescence and Electronic Structures of Graphene Oxides

Journal Article · Thu Apr 10 00:00:00 EDT 2014 · Scientific Reports

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/srep04525· OSTI ID:1624700

Chuang, C. -H. ^[1]; Wang, Y. -F. ^[2]; Shao, Y. -C. ^[2]; Yeh, Y. -C. ^[3]; Wang, D. -Y. ^[3]; Chen, C. -W. ^[3]; Chiou, J. W. ^[4]; Ray, Sekhar C. ^[5]; Pong, W. F. ^[2]; Zhang, L. ^[6]; Zhu, J. F. ^[6]; Guo, J. H. ^[7]

Tamkang Univ., Taipei (Taiwan). Dept. of Physics; DOE/OSTI
Tamkang Univ., Taipei (Taiwan). Dept. of Physics
National Taiwan Univ., Taipei (Taiwan). Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering
National Univ. of Kaohsiung (Taiwan). Dept. of Applied Physics
Univ. of South Africa, Johannesburg (South Africa). College of Science, Engineering and Technology. Dept. of Physics
Univ. of Science and Technology of China, Hefei (China). National Synchrotron Radiation Lab.
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Advanced Light Source (ALS)

Electronic structures of graphene oxide (GO) and hydro-thermally reduced graphene oxides (rGOs) processed at low temperatures (120–1806C) were studied using X-ray absorption near-edge structure (XANES), X-ray emission spectroscopy (XES) and resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS). C K-edge XANES spectra of rGOs reveal that thermal reduction restores C 5 C sp2 bonds and removes some of the oxygen and hydroxyl groups of GO, which initiates the evolution of carbonaceous species. The combination of C K-edge XANES and Ka XES spectra shows that the overlapping p and p* orbitals in rGOs and GO are similar to that of highly ordered pyrolytic graphite (HOPG), which has no band-gap. C Ka RIXS spectra provide evidence that thermal reduction changes the density of states (DOSs) that is generated in the p-region and/or in the gap between the p and p* levels of the GO and rGOs. Two-dimensional C Ka RIXS mapping of the heavy reduction of rGOs further confirms that the residual oxygen and/or oxygen-containing functional groups modify the p and s features, which are dispersed by the photon excitation energy. The dispersion behavior near the K point is approximately linear and differs from the parabolic-like dispersion observed in HOPG.

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Research Organization:: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Chemical Sciences, Geosciences & Biosciences Division

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-05CH11231

OSTI ID:: 1624700

Journal Information:: Scientific Reports, Journal Name: Scientific Reports Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 4; ISSN 2045-2322

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Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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