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  • Nanotechnology
  • Solid State Physics

Background:

  • 2D aromatic amorphous carbons with sp2 networks offer scalability and unique electronic transport.
  • Graphene oxide's water processability presents an opportunity for scalable synthesis of 2D carbon materials.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a deterministic method for producing graphene-derived 2D amorphous carbon thin films.
  • To investigate the structural and electronic properties of these novel materials.

Main Methods:

  • Combining water-processable graphene oxide with rapid thermal quenching.
  • Utilizing X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS) and Ultraviolet Photoelectron Spectroscopy (UPS) for chemical state analysis.
  • Employing correlative structural and spectroscopic analyses to characterize defects.
  • Conducting transport measurements to study electronic behavior.

Main Results:

  • A kinetically trapped quasi-amorphous phase, quenched reduced graphene oxide (qRGO), was successfully produced.
  • qRGO exhibits predominantly sp2 bonding, forming a distorted aromatic network.
  • qRGO shows suppressed long-range order and boundary-like defects, distinct from nanocrystalline RGO.
  • Electronic transport in qRGO is governed by variable-range hopping, characteristic of a strongly disordered regime.
  • Both RGO and qRGO exhibit universal power-law scaling of resistivity.

Conclusions:

  • Thermal-kinetic control over oxygen-driven defect formation is a scalable route to functional 2D amorphous carbon films.
  • The developed method allows for precise tuning of material properties for specific applications.