• 文献标题:   Electroanalytical Performance of Nitrogen-Doped Graphene Films Processed in One Step by Pulsed Laser Deposition Directly Coupled with Thermal Annealing
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   BOURQUARD F, BLEU Y, LOIR AS, CAJAMUNOZ B, AVILA J, ASENSIO MC, RAIMONDI G, SHOKOUHI M, RASSAS I, FARRE C, CHAIX C, BARNIER V, JAFFREZICRENAULT N, GARRELIE F, DONNET C
  • 作者关键词:   graphene, nitrogendoped graphene, pulse laser deposition, electrochemical analysi, oxygen peroxide oxidation
  • 出版物名称:   MATERIALS
  • ISSN:   1996-1944
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Jean Monnet
  • 被引频次:   7
  • DOI:   10.3390/ma12040666
  • 出版年:   2019

▎ 摘  要

Graphene-based materials are widely studied to enable significant improvements in electroanalytical devices requiring new generations of robust, sensitive and low-cost electrodes. In this paper, we present a direct one-step route to synthetize a functional nitrogen-doped graphene film onto a Ni-covered silicon electrode substrate heated at high temperature, by pulsed laser deposition of carbon in the presence of a surrounding nitrogen atmosphere, with no post-deposition transfer of the film. With the ferrocene methanol system, the functionalized electrode exhibits excellent reversibility, close to the theoretical value of 59 mV, and very high sensitivity to hydrogen peroxide oxidation. Our electroanalytical results were correlated with the composition and nanoarchitecture of the N-doped graphene film containing 1.75 at % of nitrogen and identified as a few-layer defected and textured graphene film containing a balanced mixture of graphitic-N and pyrrolic-N chemical functions. The absence of nitrogen dopant in the graphene film considerably degraded some electroanalytical performances. Heat treatment extended beyond the high temperature graphene synthesis did not significantly improve any of the performances. This work contributes to a better understanding of the electrochemical mechanisms of doped graphene-based electrodes obtained by a direct and controlled synthesis process.