Abstract
We report an experimentalstudy of thermal reduction of graphene oxide (GO) under nitrogen flow.Ultrathin films of GO were prepared on quartz glass substrates by spin-coatingfrom 3 mg/ml aqueous solutions of GO. These films were annealed at 50 °C under vacuum overnight before thermal reduction.The films were exposed to temperatures of 100 °C, 150 °C, 200 °C, 300 °C, 400 °C, 500 °C and 800 °C under nitrogen flowing. We used UV-Vis absorption spectroscopy tomonitor the change of absorption spectra caused by thermal reduction. We observed a significant change ofabsorption spectra due to formation of reduced graphene oxide (RGO). We found that thermal reduction startedalready at 100 °C, but proceeded significantly faster at heating temperatures higherthan 200 °C.
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