Journal
ACS NANO
Volume 6, Issue 9, Pages 7842-7849Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/nn3020147
Keywords
graphite intercalation compounds; graphene; Raman spectroscopy; Fermi energy; enhancement
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- ONR [00006766, N00014-09-1-1066]
- AFOSR [FA9550-12-1-0035, FA9550-09-1-0581]
- MEXT [20241023]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [20241023] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Graphite intercalation compounds (GICs) can be considered stacks of individual doped graphene layers. Here we demonstrate a reversible formation of sulfuric add-based GICs using ammonium persulfate as the chemical oxidizing agent No covalent chemical oxidation leading to the formation of graphite oxide occurs, which inevitably happens when other compounds such as potassium permanganate are used to charge carbon layers. The resulting add/persulfate-induced stage-1 and stage-2 GICs are characterized by suppression of the 2D band in the Raman spectra and by unusually strong enhancement of the G band. The G band is selectively enhanced at different doping levels with different excitations. These observations are in line with recent reports for chemically doped and gate-modulated graphene and support newly proposed theories of Raman processes. At the same time GICs have some advantageous differences over graphene, which are demonstrated in this report. Our experimental observations, along with earlier reported data, suggest that at high doping levels the G band cannot be used as the reference peak for normalizing Raman spectra, which is a commonly used practice today. A Fermi energy shift of 1.20-1.25 eV and similar to 1.0 eV was estimated for the stage-1 and stage-2 GICs, respectively, from the Raman and optical spectroscopy data.
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