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A Roadmap to High Quality Chemically Prepared Graphene Régis Y N Gengler, Konstantinos Spyrou, Petra Rudolf A roadmap to high quality chemically prepared graphene Régis y N Gengler, Konstantinos Spyrou, Petra Rudolf To cite this version: Régis y N Gengler, Konstantinos Spyrou, Petra Rudolf. A roadmap to high quality chemically pre- pared graphene. Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, IOP Publishing, 2010, 43 (37), pp.374015. 10.1088/0022-3727/43/37/374015. hal-00569706 HAL Id: hal-00569706 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00569706 Submitted on 25 Feb 2011 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. Confidential: not for distribution. Submitted to IOP Publishing for peer review 13 May 2010 A r oadmap to high quality chemically prepared graphene Régis Y.N. Gengler*, Ko nstantinos Spyrou and Petra Rudolf* Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials , University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 4, 9747AG Groningen, The Netherlands. E-mail: [email protected] ; [email protected] Abstract Graphene was discovered half a decade ago and proved the existence of a two -dimensional system which becomes stable as a result of 3D corrugation . I t appeared very quickly that this exceptional material ha d truly outstanding electronic, mechanical, thermal and optical properties . Consequently a broad range of application appeared, as the graphene science speedily moved forward. Since then, a lot of ef fort has been devoted not only to the study of graphene but also to its fabrication. Here we review the chemical approaches to graphene production, their advantages as well as their downsides . Our aim is to draw a roadmap of today’s most reliable path to h igh quality graphene via chemical preparation. KEYWORDS : graphene, graphene oxide, reduced graphene oxide, functionalized graphene, exfoliated graphene. 1 In the past few year s mu ch interest has focu sed on graphene, a flat monolayer of carbon atoms tig htly packed into a two -dimensional (2D) honeycomb lattice. K.S. Novoselov and A.K.Geim ’s discover y that micromechanical cleavage of bulk graphite allows to isolate graphene, (1) has trigger ed a tremendous amount of scientific interest f or this new material , at first mainly for its electronic properties . G raphene was immediately seen as the successor of the current silicon -base d technology since the 2D honeycomb carbon structure features semi -metallic behavio ur and high carrier motilities, which are ideal for a potential implementation as computing element . Therefore, graphene sheets , if processable , could be use d in classical computer , even though e xample s of use as qubit element s or for spintronic s potentially extend its use further then to purely class ical transistor -based microprocessors . Alongside with this main research stream, pure graphene was found to exhibit outstanding mechanical (2) thermal (3) and optical properties (4) , while graphene derivatives like graphene oxide or other types of functionalized graphene display remarkable catalytic, mechanical, sensing and elec tronic properties. Although graphene has so far been explored mainly in fundamental research, creat ing or deposit ing high quality graphene for application purposes has been one of the main challenges . Without realizing the future impact of his resear ch, Brodie wa s the first to produce exfoliated graphite (through oxidation). (5) The final product was no t graphene but graphene oxide (noticed b y Brodie because o f the increas ed mass of the reaction product ). (5) More then a century later , a drastically different method , micr omechanical cleavage, (1) use d to produce isolated graphene sheets , reveal ed graphene to the physics world . Since then chemist s and physicist s have used a plethora of (more or less successful) method s, among which chemical vapour deposition ( CVD ) is one of the most promising (6) in term s of coverage and layer quality. In fact, while microm echanical cleavage has been very successful in producing sample s for fundamental studies , it s extremely low yield and lack of control in placement of the sheets , gives it no future in applic ation. Other method s based on the use of SiC as a substrate and as a precursor have excellent potential in the pursuit of the best quality synthetic graphene (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) . An alternative road is chemical ly prepared graphene, which we review in this 2 contribution, focussing on properties and quality as a function of the production method (electronic properties, t ransparency, ambipolar behavio ur, sheet size and related feature s such as defect/ impurity level and coverage on various substrates) . Chemical preparation processes of graphene sheets use graphite as starting material and delaminate it by various mean s, namely by chemical functionalization, oxidation, or by intercalation . To give a good representat ion of today’s scientific landscape concerning chemical method s for graphene production we divided the subject in two subca tegories , the preponderant graphene oxide (GO) production as a first one and all the other method s (intercalation with N-Methylpyrrol idone (NMP) , functionalized surfactant s, perfluorinated aromatic molecules, etc) as a second one . Graphene from Graphene Oxide The first report s on the production of G O date from 1840 by Schafhaeutl (12) and 1859 with Brodie (5) . In the latter GO was prepared by treat ing natural graphite (Ceylon) with an oxidation mixture consisting of potassium chlorate and fuming nitric acid , for reaction time s of 3-4 day s with the solution kept at a temperature of 60 oC, until no further change was observed . Interestingly, the author, B.C. Brodie , proposed also an alternative method, where the heating was replace d by exposing the oxidation mixture flasks to the sunlight and described it as advantageous because faster. Staudenmaier (13) proposed a variation to Brodie’s method , where the graphite is oxidized in concentrated sulphuric and nitric acids with potassium chlorate . 99 yea rs after Brodie’s first experiments, Hummer s and Offeman (14) presented a method where the oxidation of graphite to graphitic oxide is accomplis hed by treating graphite with water -free mi xture of concentrated sulphuric acid, sodium nitrate and potassium permanganate. Th is process requires less than two hours for completion and rather low temperatures (below 45 oC). In the pursuit of high quality gr aphene these three methods have been extensively used 3 over past few years . Based on the results obtained with a variety of modern analysis techniques such as NMR (15) , XPS (16) (17) (18) , TEM (19) and Raman (20) (21) , the most recent model of GO ’s str ucture is the one depicted in schem atically in Figure 1, where hydroxyl and epoxide groups grafted randomly (for older structural models of GO and details of derivation of this model see ref. (22) ) to the carbon mesh alter the sp 2-bonded carbon network of pure graphene sheets (23) . Owing to the presence of such hydrophilic polar groups the GO present s swelling and intercalation properties very similar to clay .(24) In the next four sections, we shall review some of the characteristics of this new material. Figure 1. Schematic representation of the s tructure of Graphene Oxide sheets (GO); grafted hydroxyl and epoxide groups disrupt the sp 2-bonded carbon mesh of pure gra phene. Scheme taken from S. Park and R.S. Ruoff . Reprinted by permission from Macmilla n Publishers Ltd: Nature Nan otechnology (23) , copyright ( 2009 ) Ambipolar behavio ur - the quest for high field effect mobility While an incredibly high number of publication s on graphene have appeared in the last 3 -4 years , very few actually testify to the truly amazing properties of this material. In particular, m ost of the recent publications concerning the development of new synthesis method s for graphene, comprising exfoliation, r eduction, deposition, etc, omit giving evidence for ambipolar behavio ur by recording the Dirac curve , as the c onductivi ty, resistivity or drain -source current vs gate voltage measured in a Field 4 Effect Transistor [FET] device configuration is called . Transmission electron microscopy or atomic force microscopy , often use d to demonstrate the graphene character of newly produ ce d material , are very local probes and do not inform on the overall graphene quality . If one wants to compare chemically produced material with high quality graphene created by micro mechanical cleavage, the Dirac curve is the best non local probe. Both g raphene and graphite display a good conductivity ; therefore m easuring a high flake conductivity without gate voltage dependence does not pro ve a bipolar behavio ur. To the best of our knowledge the measurement s reported by G ómez -Navarro et al. (20) were the first to actually show the ambipolar character of the deposited chemically prepared material , i.e. reduced graphene oxide . The room -temperature field -effect mobilities of 2 -200 cm 2/Vs for holes and 0.5 -30 cm 2/Vs for electrons reported for these reduced GO samples are approximately 2 orders of magnitude lower than those of mechanically cleaved graphene (1) and definitely lower then the 200,000 cm 2 V−1 s−1 field effect mobility of free -standing graphene (25) because of the defective nature of the reduced layers (see section below). The reade r should be aware that field effect mobility values depend on channel length and electrode material, therefore the cited numbers (here and below) always refer to the devices employed in the cited works.
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