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NANO LETTERS
Volume 14, Issue 6, Pages 3172-3179Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/nl500485n
Keywords
Graphene oxide; reduced graphene oxide; photolysis; absorption; emission; absorption coefficient
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- American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund [51657]
- Army Research Office [W911NF-12-1-0578]
- Center for Sustainable Energy at Notre Dame (cSEND)
- CONICET [D979(25-03-2013)]
- FONCyT [P.BID2009 PICT-PRH107]
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Laser reduction of graphene oxide (GO) offers unique opportunities for the rapid, nonchemical production of graphene. By tuning relevant reduction parameters, the band gap and conductivity of reduced GO can be precisely controlled. In situ monitoring of single layer GO reduction is therefore essential. In this report, we show the direct observation of laser-induced, single layer GO reduction through correlated changes to its absorption and emission. Absorption/emission movies illustrate the initial stages of single layer GO reduction, its transition to reduced-GO (rGO) as well as its subsequent decomposition upon prolonged laser illumination. These studies reveal GO's photoreduction life cycle and through it native GO/rGO absorption coefficients, their intrasheet distributions as well as their spatial heterogeneities. Extracted absorption coefficients for unreduced GO are alpha(405) (nm) approximate to 6.5 +/- 1.1 x 10(4) cm(-1), alpha(520) (nm) approximate to 2.1 +/- 0.4 x 10(4) cm(-1), and alpha(640) (nm) approximate to 1.1 +/- 0.3 x 10(4) cm(-1) while corresponding rGO alpha-values are alpha(405) (nm) approximate to 21.6 +/- 0.6 x 10(4) cm(-1), alpha(520) (nm) approximate to 16.9 +/- 0.4 x unprecedented insight into GO's underlying photoreduction mechanism, given our ability to spatially resolve its kinetics and to 10(4) cm(-1), and alpha(640) (nm) approximate to 14.5 +/- 0.4 x 10(4) cm(-1). More importantly, the correlated absorption/emission imaging provides us with connect local rate constants to activation energies. On a broader level, the developed absorption imaging is general and can be applied toward investigating the optical properties of other two-dimensional materials, especially those that are nonemissive and are invisible to current single molecule optical techniques.
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