《Electronic structure of graphite oxide and thermally reduced》.pdfVIP

C A R B O N 4 9 ( 2 0 1 1 ) 1 3 6 2 – 1 3 6 6 av ai la bl e at w w w . s c i e n c e d i r e c t . c o m jour nal h omepage: www.elsevier.co m/lo cate/car bon Electronic structure of graphite oxide and thermally reduced graphite oxide Da Zhan a, Zhenhua Ni b, Wei Chen c,d, Li Sun a, Zhiqiang Luo a, Linfei Lai a, Ting Yu a, Andrew Thye Shen Wee c, Zexiang Shen a,* a Division of Physics and Applied Physics, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 637371, Singapore b Department of Physics, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China c Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore, 2 Science Drive 3, Singapore 117542, Singapore d Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore, 3 Science Drive 3, Singapore 117543, Singapore A R T I C L E I N F O A B S T R A C T Article history: We present the electronic structure evolution from graphite oxide to thermally reduced Received 24 August 2010 graphite oxide. Most functional groups were removed by thermal reduction as indicated Accepted 1 December 2010 by high resolution X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and the electrical conductivity Available online 4 December 2010 increased 6 orders compare with the precursor graphite oxide. X-ray absorption spectros- copy reveals that the thermally reduced graphite oxide shows several absorption peaks similar to those of pristine graphite, which were not observed in graphite oxide or chemi-