Issue 32, 2015

Tuning of fluorine content in graphene: towards large-scale production of stoichiometric fluorographene

Abstract

The availability of well-defined modified graphene derivatives such as fluorographene, graphane, thiographene or hydroxygraphene is of pivotal importance for tuning the resulting material properties in numerous potential applications. A series of fluorinated graphene with various contents of fluorine was synthesized by a simple fluorination procedure in an autoclave with a nitrogen/fluorine atmosphere at different exposure times and temperatures. To investigate the composition, structure and properties all samples were characterized in detail by a number of analytical techniques such as SEM, XRD, EDS, AFM, STEM, combustible elemental analysis, STA, XPS, Raman spectroscopy, UV-VIS spectroscopy and cyclic voltammetry. The fully fluorinated graphene with the overall stoichiometry C1F1.05 had a bright white color indicating a significant change of band-gap. In comparison to other samples such a high concentration of fluorine led to the occurrence of exotic thermal behavior, strong luminescence in the visible spectral region and also the unique super-hydrophobic behavior observed on the material surface. The described tunable fluorination should pave the way to fluorographene based devices with tailored properties.

Graphical abstract: Tuning of fluorine content in graphene: towards large-scale production of stoichiometric fluorographene

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
17 May 2015
Accepted
09 Jul 2015
First published
09 Jul 2015
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

Nanoscale, 2015,7, 13646-13655

Tuning of fluorine content in graphene: towards large-scale production of stoichiometric fluorographene

V. Mazánek, O. Jankovský, J. Luxa, D. Sedmidubský, Z. Janoušek, F. Šembera, M. Mikulics and Z. Sofer, Nanoscale, 2015, 7, 13646 DOI: 10.1039/C5NR03243A

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