Toward Optimized Charge Transport in Multilayer Reduced Graphene Oxides
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2022

In the context of graphene-based composite applications, a complete understanding of charge conduction in multilayer reduced graphene oxides (rGO) is highly desirable. However, these rGO compounds are characterized by multiple and different sources of disorder depending on the chemical method used for their synthesis. Most importantly, the precise role of interlayer interaction in promoting or jeopardizing electronic flow remains unclear. Here, thanks to the development of a multiscale computational approach combining first-principles calculations with large-scale transport simulations, the transport scaling laws in multilayer rGO are unraveled, explaining why diffusion worsens with increasing film thickness. In contrast, contacted films are found to exhibit an opposite trend when the mean free path becomes shorter than the channel length, since conduction becomes predominantly driven by interlayer hopping. These predictions are favorably compared with experimental data and open a road toward the optimization of graphene-based composites with improved electrical conduction.

multilayer transport scaling law

reduced graphene oxides

charge transport

interlayer transport

quantum transport

disordered van der Waals thin films

Författare

Mustafa Neşet Çlnar

İzmir Yüksek Teknoloji Enstitüsü (IZ -TECH)

Aleandro Antidormi

Institut Catala de Nanociencia i Nanotecnologia

Viet Hung Nguyen

Universite catholique de Louvain

Alessandro Kovtun

Istituto per la Sintesi Organica e la Fotoreattività (ISOF-CNR)

Samuel Lara Avila

Chalmers, Mikroteknologi och nanovetenskap, Kvantkomponentfysik

A. Liscio

Consiglo Nazionale Delle Richerche

Jean-Christophe Charlier

Universite catholique de Louvain

Stephan Roche

Institut Catala de Nanociencia i Nanotecnologia

Institucio Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avancats

Hâldun Sevinçli

İzmir Yüksek Teknoloji Enstitüsü (IZ -TECH)

Nano Letters

1530-6984 (ISSN) 1530-6992 (eISSN)

Vol. 22 6 2202-2208

Graphene Core Project 3 (Graphene Flagship)

Europeiska kommissionen (EU) (EC/H2020/881603), 2020-04-01 -- 2023-03-31.

Ämneskategorier

Materialkemi

Annan materialteknik

Den kondenserade materiens fysik

DOI

10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c03883

PubMed

35230103

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