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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 139, Issue 16, Pages 5836-5841Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b00474
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- College of Chemistry at UC-Berkeley
- NSF Graduate Research Fellowship [DGE 1106400]
- Department of Chemistry at Tsinghua University
- Sloan Research Fellowship
- Bakar Fellows Award
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The potential of rising two-dimensional materials, such as graphene, can be substantially expanded through chemistry. However, it has been a challenge to study how chemical reactions of two-dimensional materials progress. Existing techniques offer limited signal contrast and/or spatial temporal resolution and are difficult to apply to in situ studies. Here we employ an optical approach, namely interference reflection microscopy, to quantitatively monitor the redox reaction dynamics of graphene and graphene oxide (GO) in situ with diffraction-limited (similar to 300 nm) spatial resolution and video-rate time resolution. Remarkably, we found that the oxidation kinetics of graphene is characterized by a seeded, autocatalytic process that gives rise to unique, wave-like propagation of reaction in two dimensions. The reaction is initially slow and confined to highly localized, nanoscale hot spots associated with structural defects, but then self-accelerates while propagating outward, hence flower-like, micrometer-sized reaction patterns over the entire sample. In contrast, the reduction of GO is spatially homogeneous and temporally pseudo-first-order, and through in situ data, we further identify pH as a key reaction parameter.
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