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JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY
Volume 22, Issue 15, Pages 7130-7135Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c2jm16195h
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- Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST)
- Fundamental R & D program from Jeollabuk-do [101932]
- WCU [R31-2008-000-10071-0]
- Basic Science Research program [2010-0006922]
- Korea Basic Science Institute (KBSI)
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We report the theory and synthesis of sub-nanosized gold clusters on reduced graphene oxide (r-GOs). The Au sub-nanoclusters were found to be nucleated and grown at defects of the r-GOs, particularly on nitrogen-induced defects from density functional theory investigation. The resulting Au/r-GOs exhibit an improvement of bulk electrical conductivities and a reduced ratio of the intensity of the D band to that of the G band (I-D/I-G), compared to the r-GOs without Au nanoclusters. The unique decrease of the I-D/I-G was demonstrated to be related to the filling of subnano-sized Au clusters on the r-GOs, presumably owing to enhancing the flat geometry of the graphene nanosheets.
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