Volume 172, 2014

Controlled covalent modification of epitaxial single layer graphene on 6H-SiC (0001) with aryliodonium salts using electrochemical methods

Abstract

Controlled covalent modification of graphene via electrochemically assisted grafting of molecules is expected to be a robust method for tuning the doping levels and work function and therefore enabling the deployment of graphene in photovoltaic and battery applications. By using aryliodonium salts, in particular, bis(4-nitrophenyl)iodonium tetrafluoroborate, the grafting density can be adjusted from 4 × 1013 to 3 × 1014 molecules per cm2. New insights on the grafting mechanism and the reactivity of the graphene are reported here. Clean basal planes were found to have increased reactivity compared to atomic-level point defects (single vacancies). High resolution scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM) shows that some of the grafts present three-fold symmetry, which may indicate that the grafts are pairs of molecules. The point of attachment of the second molecule is under investigation using computational work which includes simulations of the STM images. Elongated as well as extended grafts (larger than 4 nm) are also observed.

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Article type
Paper
Submitted
10 Mar 2014
Accepted
06 May 2014
First published
09 Oct 2014

Faraday Discuss., 2014,172, 273-291

Controlled covalent modification of epitaxial single layer graphene on 6H-SiC (0001) with aryliodonium salts using electrochemical methods

K. J. Stevenson, P. A. Veneman, R. I. Gearba, K. M. Mueller, B. J. Holliday, T. Ohta and C. K. Chan, Faraday Discuss., 2014, 172, 273 DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00038B

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