1.State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China 2.State Key Laboratory of Dynamic Testing Technology, North University of China, Taiyuan 030051, China 3.Beijing Computing Center, Beijing 100094, China
Fund Project:Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61774021, 61911530133, 61935003), the Fundamental Research Business Expenses of Central Universities, China (Grant No. 2018XKJC05), the Natural Science Foundation of Shanxi Province, China (Grant No. 201801D221198), and the Fund of State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications), China (Grant No. IPOC2019ZT07)
Received Date:29 August 2019
Accepted Date:23 October 2019
Available Online:27 November 2019
Published Online:01 December 2019
Abstract:The stability and electronic structure properties of graphene fumigated by nitric acid are systematically studied by the first-principles method based on ultrasoft pseudopotentials. The model of graphene oxide fumigated by nitric acid is built based on the 2 × 2 supercell model with orthogonal graphene unit cells, which contains 15 carbon and 2 oxygen atoms. The results show that the fumigated graphene containing a carbon atom bonded to an oxygen atom is a stable structure with lower energy, which is consistent with the experimental result. In addition, the mechanical stability analysis shows ${ {C_{66}} > 0,\;{C_{11}} > 0,\;{C_{11}}{C_{22}} > C_{12}^2} $, which satisfies the mechanical stability condition. By analyzing the reactant and product, it can be concluded that the nitric acid acts as catalyst. Moreover, the process of graphene oxidation catalyzed by nitric acid is endothermic and the reaction needs heating. By analyzing the electronic properties of the structure, the graphene oxide is determined to be an intrinsic semiconductor with a direct band gap of 1.12 eV and work function of 5.28 eV. These results provide theoretical basis for preparing the graphene oxide and its applications in the field of optoelectronic devices. Keywords:first-principles calculation/ graphene oxide/ catalytic
包含碳氧双键的氧化石墨烯能带结构图如图3所示. 从图3可以看出, 与零带隙的石墨烯相比, 氧化石墨烯变为直接带隙的本征半导体材料, 其导带底与价带顶均出现在倒易空间Γ点和Χ点之间的同一点, 带隙值为1.12 eV. 其能带结构显示价带顶下移和导带底上移导致带隙增大. 图 3 包含碳氧双键的氧化石墨烯能带结构图(图中红色虚线代表费米能级) Figure3. Band structures of the graphene oxide with carbon oxygen double bond (red dashed line represents the Fermi level).